Abstract
This paper reports on the relationship between the scores (%) resulting from two scoring methods, namely whole-word scoring and phoneme scoring, employed in speech audiometric procedures with phonemically balanced (PB) word lists. Seventy-two adult subjects, 30 with normal hearing, 17 with conductive and 25 with sensorineural hearing impairment participated in this investigation. Their speech discrimination abilities whilst listening to Fry's PB word lists presented both through earphones and in a free-field situation were quantified first with the one and then with the other method and the relationship between the two groups of resulting scores was ascertained. The total number of word lists administered was just over 13,000 and the scores derived from the two scoring methods showed consistent differences (calculated at the linearly rising section of the speech discrimination curve) varying from 20-25%, phoneme scoring giving the higher percentage values. When these differences in scores were translated ...
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