Abstract

Analyses of speech identification data collected from young, normal-hearing adults often do not include measures of listeners’ hearing. Sub-clinical variation in hearing, it is assumed, will not significantly affect the identification of speech signals presented well above threshold levels. This study tested that assumption in the context of an experiment that investigated young adults’ recognition of words with few versus many phonological neighbors produced in clear and conversational speaking styles. Words were presented in speech-shaped noise at a + 5 dB SNR. A mixed effects regression analysis was performed to account for the contributions of lexical difficulty, speaking style, order of word presentation, and listeners’ hearing (as measured by pure-tone average (PTA)). This analysis showed, as expected, that correct identification was predicted by word type (easy > hard) and speaking style (clear > conversational). It also showed that identification improved over the course of the experiment. Finally...

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