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Contributions of lexical tone to Mandarin sentence recognition in hearing-impaired listeners under noisy conditions

Author(s) -

Nan Li,

Shuo Wang,

Xianhui Wang,

Li Xu

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.5120543

Subject(s) - quiet , mandarin chinese , active listening , sentence , audiology , tone (literature) , sensorineural hearing loss , acoustics , noise (video) , speech recognition , hearing loss , speech perception , psychology , computer science , perception , linguistics , medicine , communication , physics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , image (mathematics)

Mandarin sentence recognition using natural-tone and flat-tone sentences was tested in 22 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and 25 listeners with normal hearing (NH) in quiet, speech-shaped noise, and two-talker-babble conditions. While little effects of flat tones on sentence recognition were seen in the NH listeners when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was ≥0 dB, the SNHL listeners showed decreases in flat-tone-sentence recognition in quiet and at +5-dB SNR. Such declined performance was correlated with their degrees of hearing loss. Lexical tone contributes greatly to sentence recognition in hearing-impaired listeners in both quiet and in noise listening conditions.

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