The effect of talker and intonation variability on speech perception in noise in children with dyslexia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In this study, the authors aimed to determine whether children with dyslexia (hereafter referred to as "DYS children") are more affected than children with average reading ability (hereafter referred to as "AR children") by talker and intonation variability when perceiving speech in noise.

Method

Thirty-four DYS and 25 AR children were tested on their perception of consonants in naturally produced CV tokens in multitalker babble. Twelve CVs were presented for identification in four conditions varying in the degree of talker and intonation variability. Consonant place (/bi/-/di/) and voicing (/bi/-/pi/) discrimination were investigated with the same conditions.

Results

DYS children made slightly more identification errors than AR children but only for condition

SUBMITTER: Hazan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3678076 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature