A Cross-Language Comparison of Sentence Recognition Using American English and Mandarin Chinese HINT and AzBio Sentences.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to perform a cross-language comparison of two commonly used sentence-recognition materials (i.e., Hearing in Noise Test [HINT] and AzBio) in American English (AE) and Mandarin Chinese (MC).Designs: Sixty normal-hearing, native English-speaking and 60 normal-hear...
| Publicado en: | Ear & Hearing (01960202) Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 405 - 414 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Mar/Apr2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=149656601&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 149656601 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01960202 IM7 jtl: Ear & Hearing (01960202) issn: 01960202 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar/Apr2021 vid: 42 iid: 2 pid: 433 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 149656601 149656601 NLM32826510 149656601 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000938 NLM32826510 149656601 ppf: 405 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: A Cross-Language Comparison of Sentence Recognition Using American English and Mandarin Chinese HINT and AzBio Sentences. aug: au: Li Xu Xin Xi Patton, Alexa Xianhui Wang Qi, Beier Johnson, Lauren Xu, Li Xi, Xin Wang, Xianhui affil: Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA. sug: subj: Speech Perception Language Human Speech United States Noise China Comparative Studies Multicenter Studies Evaluation Research Validation Studies Language Tests Scales ab: Objectives: The aim of this study was to perform a cross-language comparison of two commonly used sentence-recognition materials (i.e., Hearing in Noise Test [HINT] and AzBio) in American English (AE) and Mandarin Chinese (MC).Designs: Sixty normal-hearing, native English-speaking and 60 normal-hearing, native Chinese-speaking young adults were recruited to participate in three experiments. In each experiment, the subjects were tested in their native language. In experiments I and II, noise and tone vocoders were used to process the HINT and AzBio sentences, respectively. The number of channels varied from 1 to 9, with an envelope cutoff frequency of 160 Hz. In experiment III, the AE AzBio and the MC HINT sentences were tested in speech-shaped noise at various signal to noise ratios (i.e., -20, -15, -10, -5, and 0 dB). The performance-intensity functions of sentence recognition using the two sets of sentence materials were compared.Results: Results of experiments I and II using vocoder processing indicated that the AE and MC versions of HINT and AzBio sentences differed in level of difficulty. The AE version yielded higher recognition performance than the MC version for both HINT and AzBio sentences. The type of vocoder processing (i.e., tone and noise vocoders) produced little differences in sentence-recognition performance in both languages. Incidentally, the AE AzBio sentences and the MC HINT sentences had similar recognition performance under vocoder processing. Such similarity was further confirmed under noise conditions in experiment III, where the performance-intensity functions of the two sets of sentences were closely matched.Conclusions: The HINT and AzBio sentence materials developed in AE and MC differ in level of difficulty. The AE AzBio and the MC HINT sentence materials are similar in level of difficulty. In cross-language comparative research, the MC HINT and the AE AzBio sentences should be chosen for the respective language as the target sentence-recognition test materials. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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