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Quantitative and qualitative differences in understanding sentences interrupted with noise by young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners. . Jae Hee Lee, Diane Kewley-Port, and Larry E Humes Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Indiana University.
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Quantitative and qualitative differences in understanding sentences interrupted with noise by young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners. Jae Hee Lee, Diane Kewley-Port, and Larry E Humes Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Indiana University Poster presented at 2007 International Research Conference on Aging and Speech Communication, Indiana, USA. E-mail: jaejalee@indiana.edu
Study 1: Kewley-Port, D., Burkle, T. Z., and Lee, J. H. (2007). “Contribution of consonant versus vowel information to sentence intelligibility for young normal hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 4, 2365-2375. • Study 2: Lee, J. H. and Kewley-Port, D. “Intelligibility of interrupted sentences at subsegmental levels in young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners,” in preparation to be submitted to J. Acoust. Soc. Am
Original sentence: If she moved gracefully, she was clumsy at it
Classification of TIMIT phonetic symbols into consonants and vowels
POSSIBLE PHONETIC SYMBOL EXAMPLE WORD TRANSCRIPTION Stops: b bee BCL B iy d day DCL D ey g gay GCL G ey p pea PCL P iy t tea TCL T iy k key KCL K iy dx muddy m ah DX iy q bat bcl b ae Q Affricates: jh joke DCL JH ow kcl k ch choke TCL CH ow kcl k Fricatives: s sea S iy sh she SH iy z zone Z ow n zh azure ae ZH er f fin F ih n th thin TH ih n v van V ae n dh then DH e n Nasals: m mom M aa M n noon N uw N ng sing s ih NG em bottom b aa tcl t EM en button b ah q EN eng washington w aa sh ENG tcl t ax n nx winner w ih NX axr Phonemic and phonetic symbols used in TIMIT
Semivowels and Glides: l lay L ey r ray R ey w way W ey y yacht Y aa tcl t hh hay HH ey hv ahead ax HV eh dcl d el bottle bcl b aa tcl t EL Others: SYMBOL DESCRIPTION ------ ----------- pau pause epi epenthetic silence h# begin/end marker (non-speech events) 1 primary stress marker 2 secondary stress marker Vowels: iy beet bcl b IY tcl t ih bit bcl b IH tcl t eh bet bcl b EH tcl t ey bait bcl b EY tcl t ae bat bcl b AE tcl t aa bott bcl b AA tcl t aw bout bcl b AW tcl t ay bite bcl b AY tcl t ah but bcl b AH tcl t ao bought bcl b AO tcl t oy boy bcl b OY ow boat bcl b OW tcl t uh book bcl b UH kcl k uw boot bcl b UW tcl t ux toot tcl t UX tcl t er bird bcl b ER dcl d ax about AX bcl b aw tcl t ix debit dcl d eh bcl b IX tcl t axr butter bcl b ah dx AXR ax-h suspect s AX-H s pcl p eh kcl k tcl t Phonemic and phonetic symbols used in TIMIT
Sentence 1546. In the pity for them his loneliness was gone. Study 1: Full and VIN (Vowels-in) FULL VIN
Study 1: Full and CIN (Consonants-in) FULL CIN Sentence 601. But that explanation is only partly true
Study 2 : 1) Steady-state in vowels and consonants (SSVC) 2) Transition in vowels and consonants (TRVC) SSVC TRVC FULL Sentence 1546. In the pity for them his loneliness was gone.
Sentence 1546. In the pity for them his loneliness was gone. Study 2 : 3) Onset Transition in vowels and consonants(ONTR) 4) Offset Transition in vowels and consonants(OFFTR) ONTR OFFTR FULL
Sentence 601. But that explanation is only partly true Study 2 : 1) Steady-state in vowels and consonants (SSVC) 2) Transition in vowels and consonants (TRVC) SSVC TRVC FULL
Study 2 : 3) Onset Transition in vowels and consonants(ONTR) 4) Offset Transition in vowels and consonants(OFFTR) ONTR OFFTR FULL Sentence 601. But that explanation is only partly true
Sentence: What elements of our behavior are decisive? Study 2 : 50% of duty cycle Study 2 :70% of duty cycle Sentence. If she moved gracefully, she was clumsy at it.
SSVC TRVC
ONTR OFFTR