title: [Speech rules of the deaf].
abstract: Although the establishment of patterns in speech production is important for therapy planning they are not always identifiable in the speech of the deaf. In this study the object was to ascertain whether the normal hearing person was capable of identifying rules of speech. Seven deaf speakers with a congenital, sensori-neural hearing loss repeated six test words five times which were rated by third year Audiology students in a closed set format. Two listeners were required to agree in 70% of the cases that a specific vowel was heard. The rating matrixes showed that the listeners were able to identify consistencies. The interlistener correlations varied from r = 0.49 to 0.98, implying that the listeners did not always agree in their judgements regarding a specific vowel. In terms of speech evaluation the findings pose implications for the audiologist.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Vokaalreëls by dowes.