Effect of Context and Hearing Loss on Time-Gated Word Recognition in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to examine word recognition in children who are hard of hearing (CHH) and children with normal hearing (CNH) in response to time-gated words presented in high- versus low-predictability sentences (HP, LP), where semantic cues were manipulated. Findings inform our understanding of how CHH combine cognitive-linguistic and acoustic-phonetic cues to support spoken word recognition. It was hypothesized that both groups of children would be able to make use of linguistic cues provided by HP sentences to support word recognition. CHH were expected to require greater acoustic information (more gates) than CNH to correctly identify words in the LP condition. In addition, it was hypothesized that error patterns would differ across groups.

Design

SUBMITTER: Lewis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5405001 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May/Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature