On the Use of the Distortion-Sensitivity Approach in Examining the Role of Linguistic Abilities in Speech Understanding in Noise

Goverts, S. Theo; Huysmans, Elke; Kramer, Sophia E.; Groot, Annette M.B. de; Houtgast, Tammo

doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2011/09-0268)

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“…In a study with subjects with normal and impaired hearing, TRT performance was not associated with word vocabulary scores (Zekveld et al 2011). In another study, no specific measures of linguistic proficiency were used, but TRT performance was shown to be related to (non-) nativeness in the tested language (Goverts et al 2011). Obviously, native and nonnative users of a language differ in the quality of the linguistic knowledge used in sentence recognition, which evokes a possible analogy with adults with CHI, compared with adults who acquired spoken language with NH.…”

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“…To study the relation between aspects of linguistic proficiency that are affected by CHI and performance in masked sentence recognition, we examine the correlation between errors in the use of a specific morphosyntactic cue in spoken language production and the use of this cue in the perception of a masked sentence. Based on the "distortion sensitivity approach" (van Schijndel et al 2001;Goverts & Houtgast 2010;Goverts et al 2011), the TRT task is administered with grammatically correct sentences and sentences in which a morphosyntactic distortion is applied. The introduced morphosyntactic error types are based on the common errors in the spoken language output of adults with moderate to severe CHI, as identified in our earlier study (Huysmans et al 2014).…”

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The Influence of Linguistic Proficiency on Masked Text Recognition Performance in Adults With and Without Congenital Hearing Impairment

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These data showed that problems with the correct use of specific morphosyntactic knowledge in spoken language production are a long-term effect of moderate to severe CHI, independent of current auditory processing abilities. However, moderate to severe CHI generally does not impede performance in masked language reception in the visual modality, as measured in this study with short, degraded sentences. Aspects of linguistic proficiency that are affected by CHI thus do not seem to play a role in masked sentence recognition in the visual modality.

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The Influence of Linguistic Proficiency on Masked Text Recognition Performance in Adults With and Without Congenital Hearing Impairment

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et al. 2016

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“…Possibly, the relationship between TRT and SRT was overruled by auditory factors in these groups. However, also in some of the NH groups associations were nonsignificant (Goverts et al, 2011; Krull et al, 2013 [old NH group]; Zekveld et al, 2012). In the study by Zekveld, Rudner, et al (2011) a significant association was observed, but only for SRTs with 29% correct responses in which the sentences were presented together with words unrelated to the semantic content of the target sentence.…”

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How Linguistic Closure and Verbal Working Memory Relate to Speech Recognition in Noise—A Review

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Koelewijn

Zekveld

et al. 2013

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The ability to recognize masked speech, commonly measured with a speech reception threshold (SRT) test, is associated with cognitive processing abilities. Two cognitive factors frequently assessed in speech recognition research are the capacity of working memory (WM), measured by means of a reading span (Rspan) or listening span (Lspan) test, and the ability to read masked text (linguistic closure), measured by the text reception threshold (TRT). The current article provides a review of recent hearing research that examined the relationship of TRT and WM span to SRTs in various maskers. Furthermore, modality differences in WM capacity assessed with the Rspan compared to the Lspan test were examined and related to speech recognition abilities in an experimental study with young adults with normal hearing (NH). Span scores were strongly associated with each other, but were higher in the auditory modality. The results of the reviewed studies suggest that TRT and WM span are related to each other, but differ in their relationships with SRT performance. In NH adults of middle age or older, both TRT and Rspan were associated with SRTs in speech maskers, whereas TRT better predicted speech recognition in fluctuating nonspeech maskers. The associations with SRTs in steady-state noise were inconclusive for both measures. WM span was positively related to benefit from contextual information in speech recognition, but better TRTs related to less interference from unrelated cues. Data for individuals with impaired hearing are limited, but larger WM span seems to give a general advantage in various listening situations.

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“…The contribution of linguistic skills in understanding speech in noise has been shown in studies with children (Eisenberg et al, 2000) and non-native listeners (van Wijngaarden et al, 2002;von Hapsburg et al, 2004;Goverts et al, 2011). van Wijngaarden et al (2002) reported 1-7 dB poorer SRTs for understanding German and English sentences by Dutch normal-hearing subjects with reasonable to excellent proficiency in these languages.…”

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The digits-in-noise test: Assessing auditory speech recognition abilities in noise

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Goverts

Festen

2013

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A speech-in-noise test which uses digit triplets in steady-state speech noise was developed. The test measures primarily the auditory, or bottom-up, speech recognition abilities in noise. Digit triplets were formed by concatenating single digits spoken by a male speaker. Level corrections were made to individual digits to create a set of homogeneous digit triplets with steep speech recognition functions. The test measures the speech reception threshold (SRT) in long-term average speech-spectrum noise via a 1-up, 1-down adaptive procedure with a measurement error of 0.7 dB. One training list is needed for naive listeners. No further learning effects were observed in 24 subsequent SRT measurements. The test was validated by comparing results on the test with results on the standard sentences-in-noise test. To avoid the confounding of hearing loss, age, and linguistic skills, these measurements were performed in normal-hearing subjects with simulated hearing loss. The signals were spectrally smeared and/or low-pass filtered at varying cutoff frequencies. After correction for measurement error the correlation coefficient between SRTs measured with both tests equaled 0.96. Finally, the feasibility of the test was approved in a study where reference SRT values were gathered in a representative set of 1386 listeners over 60 years of age.

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On the Use of the Distortion-Sensitivity Approach in Examining the Role of Linguistic Abilities in Speech Understanding in Noise

Abstract: The results show the potential value of the distortion-sensitivity approach in studying the role of linguistic abilities in speech understanding in noise of individuals with hearing impairment.

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The Influence of Linguistic Proficiency on Masked Text Recognition Performance in Adults With and Without Congenital Hearing Impairment

The Influence of Linguistic Proficiency on Masked Text Recognition Performance in Adults With and Without Congenital Hearing Impairment

How Linguistic Closure and Verbal Working Memory Relate to Speech Recognition in Noise—A Review

The digits-in-noise test: Assessing auditory speech recognition abilities in noise

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