The question of phonetic balance in word recognition testing.
Twenty subjects with normal hearing and 15 subjects with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing losses were tested with eight lists of words using monosyllabic pronunciation to determine word recognition scores. Four of the lists were taken from Northwestern University Test No. 6 and four were simply made up by randomly selecting words from a dictionary. All of the word lists were used to determine performance-intensity functions. No clinically meaningful differences were observed among the lists.
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Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.
Champlin
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Perez
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test; D014825:Vocabulary