- Title
- Mandarin lexical tone recognition in sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners and cochlear implant users
- Creator
- Wang, Shuo; Liu, Bo; Zhang, Hua; Dong, Ruijuan; Mannell, Robert; Newall, Philip; Chen, Xueqing; Qi, Beier; Zhang, Luo; Han, Demin
- Relation
- Acta Oto-Laryngologica Vol. 133, Issue 1, p. 47-54
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00016489.2012.705438
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Conclusions: As the hearing loss becomes more severe, the tone recognition performance of hearing-impaired listeners gradually but slowly reduces. The tone recognition performance of cochlear implant listeners is below or close to the performance of severely hearing-impaired listeners. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the Mandarin lexical tone recognition performance of sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners and post-lingually deafened cochlear implant users. Methods: Tone recognition performance was measured for 30 normal-hearing subjects, 41sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners, and 12 cochlear implant users using 128 monosyllables recorded by a male and a female adult native Mandarin speaker. Results: The results indicated that the accuracy of tone recognition was 99.3%, 96.4%, 93.7%, 83.9%, and 81.0% for the normal-hearing, moderate, moderate to severe, severely hearing-impaired, and cochlear implant subjects, respectively. For the hearing-impaired subjects, a significantly negative correlation was observed between tone recognition performance and the audiometric hearing thresholds. For cochlear implant subjects, Tone 3 was the easiest one to perceive and Tone 2 was the hardest one to perceive. They tended to misperceive Tone 1 as Tone 2, and misperceive Tone 2 as Tones 1 and 3.
- Subject
- tone confusion pattern; post-lingual deafness
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1294343
- Identifier
- uon:18771
- Identifier
- ISSN:0001-6489
- Language
- eng
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