Word recognition test (WRT) presented at the most comfortable loudness level can provide valuable informations for diagnosing the degree of communication disability, prescribing hearing instruments, planning aural rehabilitation and speech therapy, and determination of site of lesions. The purpose of this study was to develop the Korean standard monosyllabic word lists for adults (KS-MWL-A). Considering the criteria given by the literatures such as phonetic balance, equal range of phonetic composition of speech, words in common usage, and words' familiarity, etc, first 1,456 candidating monosyllabic words were selected. Those were extracted from the conventional lists, the first and second graded familiar words, and the words that were included in the dictionary. In order to reflect the actual frequencies of syllable in colloquialism, initial and final consonants' and vowels' frequencies in everyday dialogue were investigated and controlled. The KS-MWL-A was developed with selected final 200 monosyllabic words, followed by examinations of psychometric functions and homogeneity of the stimulus twice and corrections referred by the experts. The first and the second psychometric function tests were performed to 30 young adults (mean age:22) and to 48 young adults (mean age:21.5), respectively at 12 steps of intensity from-10 to 45 dBHL in 5 dBHL steps and psychometric function curves were obtained using the logistic regression equation. The mean slope was 8.
Word recognition test (WRT) for the children can be useful for diagnosing the degree of communication disability, prescribing hearing instruments, planning aural rehabilitation and speech therapy, and determination of site of lesions. It is important to use appropriate testing materials for the different langage developmental levels according to the age. As the Korean monosyllabic word lists for the children were not standardized properly, the purpose of this study was to develop the Korean standard monosyllabic word lists for school aged children and preschoolers (KS-MWL-S & KS-MWL-P). Considering the criteria given by the literatures such as phonetic balance and equal range of phonetic composition of speech, words in common usage, and words' familiarity, etc, first 1,739 & 1,351 monosyllabic words were selected for candidates of KS-MWL-S & P. Those were extracted from the conventional lists, the first and second graded familiar words, the words that were included in the dictionary, children's books, published articles, and children's TV program. In order to reflect the actual frequencies of syllable in general colloquialism, initial and final consonants' and vowels' frequencies in everyday dialogue were investigated and controlled. The KS-MWL-S & P were developed with selected final 100 monosyllabic words, respectively, followed by examinations of psychometric functions and homogeneity of the stimulus and corrections referred by the experts. The psychometric function tests were performed with the identical method with the KS-MWL-A development. The subjects were 30 children (mean age:9.23) for the school aged children's list and 8 children (mean age: 5.75) for the preschoolers' list. The mean slopes were 6.49 and 3.07 and the words that were within 1.00 standard deviations of the slope and the level were only included. Picture recognition tests were also performed to 3-4 years old 91 children for verification of the pictures that are drawn by the professional illustrators followed by the corrections. The KS-MWL-S & P 100 words were composed of conventional word lists by Hahm (1962) with 67% (67 words) for the school aged children's list and 68% (68 words) for the preschoolers' list, the first and second graded familiarity words with 98% (98 words) for both lists. Also, consonant-vowelconsonant formation was mostly composed with 60% (60 words) for the school aged children's list and 71% (71 words) for the preschoolers' list and noun class was 97% (67 words) for the school aged children's list and 99% (99 words) for the preschoolers' list, 52% (104 words) and 97.5% (196 words). Four lists were balanced based on equal average difficulty and equal phonetic composition and homogeneity statistically for both word lists. In the KS-MWL-S, the first 10 words on each list were controlled with easy words considering application to the 6-8 years old and the full lists were composed with general school aged children word such as the 9-12 years old. In the KS-MWL-P, the first 10 words on each list were also controlled with ea...
The purpose of this study was to develop Korean Consonant Perception Test (KCPT), that is a phonemic level including elementary data to evaluate speech and consonant perception ability of the normal and the hearing impaired qualitatively and quantitatively. KCPT was completed with meaningful monosyllabic words out of possible all Korean monosyllabic words, considering articulation characteristics, the degree of difficulty, and the frequency of the phonemic appearance, after assembling a tentative initial and final consonants testing items using four multiple-choice method which were applied to the seven final consonant regulation and controlled with the familiarity of the target words.Conclusively, the final three hundred items were developed including two-and one-hundred items for initial and final testing items, respectively, with the evaluation of the 20 normal hearing adults. Through this process, the final KCPT was composed upon the colloquial frequency following identification of no speakers' variances statistically and elimination of the highly difficult items. The 30 hearing impaired were tested with KCPT and found that the half lists, A and B, were not different statistically and the initial and final testing items were appropriate for evaluating initial and final consonants, respectively.
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