The effect of stimulus duration on perception of Turkish vowels in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children


Kilic M. A., Yildirim I., OKUR E., Ogut F., Serbetcioglu B.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, cilt.45, sa.11, ss.675-680, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14992020600937337
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.675-680
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: hearing impairment in children, speech perception, Turkish, vowels, LISTENERS, IDENTIFICATION, RECOGNITION, STRESS, CUES
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The objective of the study was to examine the effects of stimulus duration on vowel perception in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children. For this purpose, 80 semisynthetic vowel stimuli consisting of eight different Turkish vowels with ten different durations were presented to 14 normal-hearing and 15 hearing impaired children, and they were asked to identify the vowel they heard. Thirteen normal-hearing adults served as speaker subjects to get normative data on mean durations of the Turkish vowels. While there was no significant effect of duration on perception in normal-hearing children, perception errors for very short and very long vowels were observed in hearing-impaired children. The most frequent responses as a function of duration showed four different patterns: (1) three vowels were perceived correctly in all durations; (2) two were perceived correctly in middle and longer durations; (3) two were perceived correctly in middle duration; and (4) only one was perceived correctly in short duration. It was concluded that the effects of stimulus duration on vowel perception were determined by natural duration of the vowel in a given language, and unnaturally short and long vowels were misperceived by hearing impaired subjects.