Sentence examples for speech perception accuracy from inspiring English sources

This study investigated the role of speech perception accuracy and speed in fluent word decoding of reading disabled (RD) children.

Adlard and Hazan (1998) used natural language contrasts to examine speech perception accuracy in English RD children.

The relationship between speech perception accuracy and reading disability has been studied extensively, yet research into the relationship between speed of speech perception and reading is still lacking.

Further research should make clear whether also in transparent orthographies like Dutch such a comorbid subgroup may have problems in speech perception accuracy.

To determine whether insecure access to phonemes may be an underlying factor for the reading fluency problems in transparent languages, the current study will focus on both speech perception accuracy and speed.

Finally, correlational analyses showed no significant relationship between accuracy in speech perception and reading fluency, suggesting that accuracy of speed perception was not an underlying deficit for lack of reading fluency in Dutch RD children.

Even though the older participants in our study possessed normal peripheral hearing abilities, their speech perception performance (i.e., task accuracy) was significantly worse than that of younger adults under the increased sensory/cognitive demands of the noisy listening environment [8].

See "Appendices  1" ("different" items) and " 2" ("identical" items) for a list of consonants and contrasts used in the speed and accuracy analysis of speech perception by RD and CA children.

All children had higher error rates when pairs differed in one phonetic feature (place of articulation, e.g., /spill/ -/still/) than when three features (voicing, manner, and place of articulation, e.g., /spot/-/slot/) differed, suggesting that phonetic similarity created accuracy problems in speech perception for all children.

Interestingly, however, reading ability did not correlate with accuracy in either visual speech perception task.

Examining not just accuracy but also speed of speech perception seems especially important in transparent orthographies like Dutch where lack of reading speed is the defining feature of RD.