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Libbey, Brad W. "Reverberant word intelligibility and psychological models of dereverberation." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15808.

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Chau, Ha-fong Cynthia. "Single-word intelligibility in Cantonese speakers with repaired cleft palate." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207792.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2001.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, 4th May, 2001." Also available in print.

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Weisleder, Pedro 1959. "COMPARATIVE INTELLIGIBILITY FUNCTIONS AND SOME NORMATIVE DATA OF FOUR SPANISH WORD RECOGNITION ABILITY LISTS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276520.

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The investigator evaluated a commercially available Spanish word recognition ability test. The material consists of four lists of fifty bisyllabic tetraphonemic Spanish words available from Auditec of St. Louis as: "Spanish speech discrimination lists 1-4". Interlist equivalence, word difficulty, speaker's intelligibility, and P/I functions' slopes were investigated. Taped lists were presented to 16 normal hearing native Spanish speaking adults at four presentation levels. Statistical analysis indicated that the intelligibility of list three is significantly different than the other lists at t

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Jaime, Ruti. "How do I pronounce this word? : Strategies used among Swedish learners of English when pronouncing unfamiliar words." Thesis, Karlstad University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4060.

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<p><p><p>This study aimed to identify some of the strategies students used when pronouncing unfamiliar words. Questionnaires were handed out to 94 students in the 9th grade in a medium-sized Swedish town. In addition, two teachers and 13 students were interviewed. The results indicate that the students had acquired some basic knowledge about the English sound system from phonetic training in their past education. However, there seemed to be a tendency among the students to use the trial-and-error strategy to a larger extent than using tools such as phonetic transcription in order to figure out

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Olsson, Carin Therese Irene. "The effect of errors on the intelligibility of learner texts." Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4111.

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<p>Abstract: This paper is based on a qualitative investigation concerning the effect of errors on the intelligibility of learner texts and whether there are some errors that can be considered graver than others. The investigation was based on five student texts that were collected at an upper secondary school in the Swedish province of Värmland. The texts were sent to five native speaker evaluators in Britain and the United States of America. The errors represented were categorized as followed: substance, grammar, word choice, transfer errors and other errors.The results indicate that errors

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Stringer, L. M. "Accent intelligibility across native and non-native accent pairings : investigating links with electrophysiological measures of word recognition." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1462906/.

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The intelligibility of accented speech in noise depends on the interaction of the accents of the talker and the listener. However, it is not yet clear how this influence arises. Accent familiarity is commonly proposed to be a major contributor to accent intelligibility, but recent evidence suggests that the similarity between talker and listener accents may also be able to account for accent intelligibility across talker-listener pairings. In addition, differences in accent intelligibility are also often only found in the presence of other adverse conditions, so it is not clear if the talker-l

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Ghanem, Romy. "Intelligibility of Word-Final Voiced and Voiceless Consonants Produced by Lebanese Arabic Speakers with Respect to Vowel Length." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275576955.

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Schadech, Thaís Suzana. "The production of word-initial /.I/ by brazilian learners of english and the issues of comprehensibility and intelligibility." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/103510.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2013<br>Made available in DSpace on 2013-07-16T21:04:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 316556.pdf: 3955966 bytes, checksum: bd0274272898884405222a43740443f9 (MD5)<br>Os róticos do Português Brasileiro (BP) possuem várias variações, o que às vezes induz os brasileiros a transferir a pronúncia dos róticos do PB para o inglês, principalmente nos estágios iniciais de aprendizado (Osborne, 2008). Tal processo geralme

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Lepage, Andrée. "The contribution of word stress and vowel reduction to the intelligibility of the speech of Canadian French second language learners of English." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26124.

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Cette thèse porte sur la perception par des locuteurs natifs de l’anglais (L1) de la production orale de francophones parlant l’anglais comme langue seconde (L2). Elle emploie une méthode d’analyse mixte visant à déterminer: (1) l’existence d’une interférence et (2) le degré d’interférence de l’accent tonique et de la réduction vocalique avec l’intelligibilité ; (3) la comparaison de l’impact de l’omission de la réduction vocalique et de son mauvais positionnement sur l’intelligibilité; (4) si un déplacement de l’accent vers la droite nuit d’avantage à l’intelligibilité qu’un déplacement vers

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Forsberg, Larsson Johanna, and Maria Lilja. "Förståelighet hos ett barn med språkstörning : En jämförelse mellan barns och vuxnas lyssnarbedömningar." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logopedi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-76571.

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Förståelighet innebär hur väl lyssnaren förstår vad talaren menar (Hartelius & Lohmander, 2008). Barn med språkstörning har ofta en nedsatt förståelighet (Nettelbladt, 2007). Föreliggande studie syftar till att undersöka huruvida det föreligger någon skillnad mellan jämnåriga barns och vuxnas förståelse av ett svårförståeligt barn med språkstörning. Icke-familjära lyssnare genomförde lyssnarbedömningar i form av ordidentifiering. Lyssnarna bestod av tio vuxna (22-67 år) samt elva förskolebarn (4;1-5;6 år). Materialet de bedömde utgjordes av 23 ord, yttrade av en pojke (4;9 år) med diagnose

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Banzina, Elina. "The Role of Secondary-stressed and Unstressed-unreduced Syllables in Word Recognition: Acoustic and Perceptual Studies with Russian Learners of English." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1340114580.

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Patterson, Karen Ann. "Discrimination of Time-Compressed Speech Stimuli: a Comparison Study Using a Closed-Set Task With Older Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330682/.

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Use of time-compressed speech stimuli has been found to be clinically effective in differential diagnosis of lesions of the temporal lobe. However, notably absent from the literature is information concerning performance of adults on time-compressed closed-set speech discrimination tasks. The goal of this study mas to compare performance of 12 males and 12 females between age 50 and age 70 on a time-compressed closed-set speech discrimination test against the performance of 12 males and 12 females between age 10 and age 28 on the same task. The Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification te

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Grobbelaar, Annerina. "Linear frequency transposition and word recognition abilities of children with moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss." Diss., Pretoria : [s. n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03112010-104801.

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Dymarz, Rafal. "The intelligibility of the physical world in Plato's Timaeus." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60370.pdf.

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Muller, Claudia. "Extended frequency amplification, speech recognition and functional performance in children with mild to severe sensorineural hearing loss." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30077.

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A substantial body of research points to the benefits of fitting hearing instruments that provides extended high frequency amplification. Most published research were done on adults or in controlled laboratory settings. It is therefore necessary for peadiatric audiologists to critically assess the effects that this extended high frequency amplification has on the individual child fitted with hearing instruments. A quantitative research method was selected to explore the possible correlations between extended high frequency amplification and the influence this extended high frequency amplificat

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Mitchell, Susan Coll. "A Study of the Correlation between the Articulation Competence Index (ACI) and the Percentage of Words Understood in the Continuous Speech of 4- and 5-year-olds of Varying Phonological Competence." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5166.

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Intelligibility refers to how recognizable a speaker's words are to the listener. Severity, a broader but closely related concept, incorporates intelligibility, disability, and handicap. Many factors influence intelligibility, including speech sound production, voice, and prosody, as well as a number of linguistic and contextual factors. Clinicians and researchers in the field of speechlanguage pathology require accurate measures of intelligibility and severity to assess and describe communicative functioning and to measure change over time. Determining the most accurate and efficient measurem

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Ahlinder, Annie, and Julia Labba. "SIV-Speech clarity, Intelligibility & Voice : Development of a speech assessment tool for use by healthprofessionals who work with patients treated with DeepBrain Stimulation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Logopedi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-64540.

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Background: Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Essential tremor (ET) who havebeen treated with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) generally experience a positive effect,particularly regarding the motor symptoms. However, the patients’ communication skillsare often negatively affected and the assessment instrument currently used withinneurological clinical care is not sufficiently sensitive to assess these patients’ speechclarity, voice and intelligibility satisfactorily.Aim: This study’s purpose was to develop a prototype assessment tool for speech clarity,intelligibility and voice, with spe

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Kachi, Reiko. "Factors predicting native and nonnative listeners' evaluative reactions to Japanese English." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1078330131.

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Henderson, Paul. "“Love is rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love” : An exploration of reason, love, and their interrelation in selected works of Joseph Ratzinger in the light of work by Bernard Lonergan." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2021. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/4625e4e7b412b15c44ae77da1c7739b1282fa830cfcb5b629d14221c1d7c086e/1412306/Henderson_2021_Love_is_rich_in_intelligence_and.pdf.

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While some scholars have highlighted the importance of reason in Joseph Ratzinger’s theology, and others love, less attention has been paid to their interrelation. The thesis in this dissertation is that reason, love, and their interrelation are of critical interest to Ratzinger—that he pays considerable longitudinal attention to each. Further, that he upholds reason and love as inseparable. Moreover, Bernard Lonergan’s articulation of the same subject matter acts as an informative and constructive interlocution to Ratzinger’s assertion of the interrelation between love and reason. Lonergan’s

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Chiu, Yu-Ju, and 邱鈺茹. "Investigation of word intelligibility of dysarthric patients in Taiwan." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24403939823955602198.

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碩士<br>臺北市立大學<br>語言治療碩士學位學程<br>103<br>This study aims to determine performance of word intelligibility between dysarthric and healthy cohorts in Mandarin by using a novel tool. Thirty-two patients and 62 controls participated in the study. Both groups were assessed with a newly developed 50-word-set test written in Mandarin by Chen et al. (2011). Only patients with indicated dysarthria were assessed Franchay Dysarthria Assessment-2 (FDA-2). Independent t test and Pearson correlation were used to compare study variables, including group, habitual language used, word intelligibility, and non-spee

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潘奕陵. "The Perceptual Analysis of Word- and Sentence-level Speech Intelligibility in Students with Hearing Impairment." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90912331681720972569.

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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>特殊教育研究所<br>86<br>This study investigated perceptual judgment of speech intelligibility in students with hearing impairment. A minimum phonetic contrast task was used for intelligibility analysis. Selected contrasts included vowel height, vowel frontness, aspiration-unaspiration, affricate-fricative, stop-nasal, nasl and stop articulation place. Speech materials consisted of 92 disyllabic words and 20 sentences. Multiple regression analysis revealed that three contrasts (tone, stop and vowel frontness) accounted for 97% intelligibility variability. The second part of t

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Hsu, Hsiao ping, and 徐筱萍. "A Study on Speech Intelligibility, Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition in First and Second Graders with Speech Sound Disorders." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94103358193145918613.

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碩士<br>臺北市立大學<br>語言治療碩士學位學程<br>102<br>The purpose of the present research is to investigate the relationships among speech intelligibility, phonological awareness, and word recognition for children who have speech sound disorders （SSD）. The subject consists of fifty-three first and second graders with SSD yet no intelligence and/or hearing impairment. First of all, ‘Articulation and Phonology Test of Children ‘is used to collect data and to measure children’s speech intelligibility to test their articulatory and phonological abilities, then ‘Phonological Awareness Test’ and ‘Word Recognition Te

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Ya-Ping, Chang, and 張雅萍. "Influence of Demographic factors on Word Intelligibility, Speaking Rate and Oral Diadokinetic Rate in Adults who Speak Mandarin in Taiwan." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94413023914717373124.

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碩士<br>國立臺北護理健康大學<br>聽語障礙科學研究所<br>102<br>This study aims to reveal demographic features among word intelligibility, speaking rate and oral diadokinetic rate in non-neurologically-impaired Mandarin speakers in Taiwan, including age, gender, socioeconomic status, residential distribution, and habitual language using), as well as to compare the differences across the parameters. Materials used included 600 two-syllable Chinese words, a Chinese essay (Chen, 1996) and four sets of syllables (/pa/, /ta/, /ka/, /pataka/). A total of 198 participants (Mage= 56.33, Range= 20-88) were included to assess

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LAI, Yu-Ching, and 賴俞靜. "The Effects of Computer Assisted Instruction on Improving Speech Identification and Word Intelligibility in Junior High School Students with Hearing Impairment." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27748830000074171015.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>特殊教育學系在職進修碩士班<br>101<br>The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effects of computer assisted instruction on improving speech identification and word intelligibility of junior high school students hearing impairment. A single-subject experimental study of multiple baseline design across subjects was used. The participants were three junior high school students with moderate to severe hearing impairment in the special class for hearing impairment in Taoyuan County. The independent variable was the training program using computer assisted instruction, whereas the de

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Tseng, Hsueh-Ching, and 曾雪靜. "The effects of varying compression time constants in a hearing aid on Mandarin word and tone intelligibilityThe effects of varying compression time constants in a hearing aid on Mandarin word and tone intelligibility." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45489060830887214099.

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碩士<br>國立台北護理學院<br>聽語障礙科學研究所<br>95<br>Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of varying compression time constants in a hearing aid on Mandarin word and tone intelligibility. Materials and methods: Fourteen subjects with moderate or moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss participated in this study. The age of subjects ranged from 20 to 60 years old. They are all native Chinese speakers. A master digital hearing aid with four different combinations of attack-release time were given to each subject. They were tested with word discrimination in noise, tone discrimi

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Hashi, Michiko. "Articulatory correlates of formant histories in intelligibility test words." 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40784873.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1997.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-81).

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Kuo, Ming-Wen. "Frequency importance functions for words and sentences in Mandarin Chinese : implications for hearing aid prescriptions in tonal languages." Thesis, 2013. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/534271.

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Hearing aids increase the amount of speech perceived by the listener by amplifying the speech signal using a prescription that takes into account the type of hearing loss, and the frequency importance function (FIF) for the listeners’ language. An FIF describes how each frequency band contributes to speech intelligibility and is a reflection of the structure of the input language. Therefore, for Mandarin, the FIF may be affected not just by its phonemic structure, but also by the inclusion of low-frequency lexical tone. To date, most FIFs have been developed for English language background lis

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