title: The question of phonetic balance in word recognition testing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.
authors.forename: F N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Champlin
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: 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