The effect of listeners’ experience on the evaluation of intonation contours produced by hearing-impaired children

Tova Most*, Miri Shurgi

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Abstract

This study investigated the effect of the listener’s experience on the evaluation of intonation contours produced by hearing-impaired children. Stimuli included imitations of intonation [based on synthebic speech stimuli] produced by hearing-impaired children. Twenty listeners [0] experienced and 10 naive] evaluated the intonation production by means of two evaluation tools: a rating scale and a forced choice test. No significant differences were found between the two listener groups using the forced choice test, either for the falling or for the rising contours. However, a significant difference was found between the two listener groups using the rating scale, with regard to both the rising and the falling contours. Thus, the effect of experience decreased when using the forcedchoice procedure. This finding supports the use of the forcedchoice method for providing a perceptual measure of speech production performance that is independent of the listener’s experience.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)112-117
Number of pages6
JournalEar and Hearing
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1993

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