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The question of phonetic balance in word recognition testing
F N Martin1, C A Champlin, D D Perez
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
|November 1, 2000
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.