VCVs vs CVCs for stop/fricative distinctions by hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners

Moderately to profoundly hearing-impaired (n = 30) and normal-hearing (n = 6) listeners identified p, k, t, f, theta, s] in symbol; see text], and symbol; see text]s tokens extracted from spoken sentences. The symbol; see text]s were also identified in the sentences. The hearing-impaired group distinguished stop/fricative manner more poorly for symbol; see text] in sentences than when extracted. Further, the group's performance for extracted symbol; see text] was poorer than for extracted symbol; see text] and symbol; see text]. For the normal-hearing group, consonant identification was similar among the syllable and sentence contexts.