Stop-consonant recognition for normal-hearing listeners and listeners with high-frequency hearing loss. I: The contribution of selected frequency regions |
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Authors: | J R Dubno D D Dirks D E Ellison |
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Institution: | UCLA School of Medicine, Division of Head and Neck Surgery 90024. |
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Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to specify the contribution of certain frequency regions to consonant place perception for normal-hearing listeners and listeners with high-frequency hearing loss, and to characterize the differences in stop-consonant place perception among these listeners. Stop-consonant recognition and error patterns were examined at various speech-presentation levels and under conditions of low- and high-pass filtering. Subjects included 18 normal-hearing listeners and a homogeneous group of 10 young, hearing-impaired individuals with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. Differential filtering effects on consonant place perception were consistent with the spectral composition of acoustic cues. Differences in consonant recognition and error patterns between normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners were observed when the stimulus bandwidth included regions of threshold elevation for the hearing-impaired listeners. Thus place-perception differences among listeners are, for the most part, associated with stimulus bandwidths corresponding to regions of hearing loss. |
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