A Phonemic Analysis of Half-List Speech Discrimination Tests
Patti Grubb · Journal of Speech and Hearing Research · 1963
No AccessJournal of Speech and Hearing ResearchResearch Article1 Sep 1963A Phonemic Analysis of Half-List Speech Discrimination Tests Patti Grubb Patti Grubb Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Los Angeles, California Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.0603.271 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In The results of a phonemic analysis of the words in the W-22 test and PB test lists 7, 8, 9, and 10 are reported. The question asked was: what happens to phonetic balance when a 50-word test is split into two halves? The method involved phonemic transcriptions of the word lists from which frequency distributions of the phonemes were made. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were computed using the frequency distribution data for the first half versus the second half of each list and for each half-list versus the frequency of occurrence reported by Dewey. The results of the analysis showed that the highest r between split halves of a test was .57 and the lowest .17 and that rs for PB and W-22 tests were similar. Correlations between half-lists and the Dewey data ranged from .19 to .90 with the coefficients being somewhat poorer for the PB test than for the W-22 test. Some observations regarding phonemic distribution in the two tests were made. The analysis showed that the PB characteristic of the whole test is lost when a 50-word list is split into two 25-word lists. Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by International Journal of Audiology46:1 (47-66)1 Jan 2007Psychometrically equivalent Russian speech audiometry materials by male and female talkersRichard W. Harris, Shawn L. Nissen, Melissa G. Pola, David L. McPherson, George A. Tavartkiladze and Dennis L. Eggett International Journal of Audiology44:7 (379-390)1 Jan 2005Psychometrically equivalent mandarin bisyllabic speech discrimination materials spoken by male and female talkersShawn L. Nissen, Richard W. Harris, Lara-Jill Jennings, Dennis L. Eggett and Holly Buck Richard Luchsinger and Gottfried E. Arnold (1970) Physiologie der Sprachlaute Handbuch der Stimm- und Sprachheilkunde10.1007/978-3-7091-7130-1_11 Volume 6Issue 3September 1963Pages: 271-275 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library HistoryReceived: Mar 4, 1963 Published in issue: Sep 1, 1963PubMed ID: 14062025 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesleader-topicsCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1963 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading ...