The Development of Mandarin Monosyllable Lexical Neighborhood Test
- VernacularTitle:普通话儿童词汇相邻性单音节词表的编制
- Author:
Ning ZHANG
;
Yuqi SHENG
;
Sha LIU
;
Xuan WU
;
Mo LONG
;
Shufeng WANG
;
Juanjuan XU
;
Chen JI
;
Wei WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Children;
Neighbordhood activation model(NAM);
Speech audiometry
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2009;17(4):313-317
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective Base on the neighborhood activation model(NAM), to develop the Mandarin monosyllable lexical neighborhood test(M-LNT-monosyllable), which is expected to be useful for evaluating speech perception performance in children with hearing loss. Methods Test items were based on the lexical characteristics of word frequency and neighborhood density which addressed in the neighborhood activation model (NAM). M-LNT -monosyllable consisted of two parts: Lexically "easy" words with high word frequency, which were low phonemically similar to the target word and lexically "hard" words with low word frequency, which were high phonemically similar to the target word. 34 children of 3～5 year old with normal hearing were choosed as subjects to verify easy word and hard word lists. Results 1 979 words for children contained 487 easy words and 419 hard words. Three easy word lists and three hard word lists were developed to estimate the performance of word recognition among normal- hearing children. There were no differences among scores of three easy words lists(P＞0.05), and no difference among scores of three hard words lists(P＞0.05). But there were significant differences between scores of easy and hard words lists(P＜0.01). Conclusion The development of the lexicon was affected by the lexical characteristics. Normal-hearing children with some lexical techniques were affected by the lexical characteristics when they recognized the spoken words, but children with less lexical technique didn't show the same result because the recognition was processed on the phonetic level.
