The Influence of Vowels on the Identification of Spoken Disyllabic Words in the Malayalam Language for Individuals with Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

The present study investigates the reasons for better recognition of disyllabic words in Malayalam among individuals with hearing loss. This research was conducted in three experiments. Experiment 1 measured the psychometric properties (slope, intercept, and maximum scores) of disyllabic wordlists. Experiment 2 examined PB_max scores across varying degrees of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and compared these findings with studies in other Indian and global languages. Experiment 3 analyzed the recognition performance of different vowel combinations across varying degrees of hearing loss.

Methods

Experiment 1: Psychometric functions for disyllabic word recognition were derived from 45 individuals with normal hearing. Word recognition was test

SUBMITTER: Narne VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11639911 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature