title: Psychometric properties of the Standard-Chinese lexical neighborhood test.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The psychometric characteristics of Standard-Chinese lexical neighborhood test (LNT) confirmed the lexical effects of the four word categories. The established normative baseline can be used in evaluating the word-recognition performance of the hearing-impaired listeners.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric characteristics and evaluate the reliability of Standard-Chinese LNT in children and adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-six normal-hearing adults and 13 normal-hearing children were recruited. Word recognition was tested with the Standard-Chinese LNT materials that consisted of four types of word list: monosyllable easy words, monosyllable hard words, disyllable easy words, and disyllable hard words.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The thresholds at 50% correct performance for the easy word lists and disyllable word lists were lower than those for the hard word lists and monosyllable word lists, respectively (all p < 0.001). The slopes for disyllable words were steeper than the monosyllable words (p < 0.05). In addition, the recognition threshold of the four categories for children was higher than that for adults (all p < 0.05). The critical difference was on average 26.6% for adults and 30.0% for children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University.
authors.forename: Suju
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Haihong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jiefen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Shujing
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yilin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D055815:Young Adult