Meyer S E
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand.
S Afr J Commun Disord. 1993;40:49-58.
Although the establishment of patterns in speech production is important for therapy planning they are not always identifiable in the speech of the deaf. In this study the object was to ascertain whether the normal hearing person was capable of identifying rules of speech. Seven deaf speakers with a congenital, sensori-neural hearing loss repeated six test words five times which were rated by third year Audiology students in a closed set format. Two listeners were required to agree in 70% of the cases that a specific vowel was heard. The rating matrixes showed that the listeners were able to identify consistencies. The interlistener correlations varied from r = 0.49 to 0.98, implying that the listeners did not always agree in their judgements regarding a specific vowel. In terms of speech evaluation the findings pose implications for the audiologist.
虽然言语产生模式的建立对治疗规划很重要，但在聋人的言语中并非总能识别出来。在本研究中，目的是确定听力正常的人是否能够识别言语规则。七名患有先天性感音神经性听力损失的聋人将六个测试单词重复五次，由三年级听力学专业学生以封闭式形式进行评分。要求两名听众在70%的情况下就听到特定元音达成一致。评分矩阵显示听众能够识别出一致性。听众之间的相关性从r = 0.49到0.98不等，这意味着听众在对特定元音的判断上并不总是一致的。就言语评估而言，这些发现对听力学家有一定启示。
