Lexical Effects on Spoken Word Recognition in Persian-Speaking Preschool-Aged Children with Normal Hearing
Authors:Mohammad Majid Oryadi-Zanjani
Open Access
Journal Type:Research Article
Subject Field:Rehabilitation Sciences
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Publish Date:July 13, 2023 8:00 pm
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Volume:128, Issue: 1, July, 2023
Subject:Medicine, Health & Food
Pages:589-595
Abstract
The current study aimed to determine lexical effects on spoken word recognition in Persian-speaking preschool-aged children with normal hearing. The research, as a cross-sectional study, was administered in sixty-two 4-to-6-year-old children who were recruited using convenient sampling from a preschool center in Shiraz city, Iran. The preschool version of the Persian Lexical Neighborhood Tests (PLNTs-PV) was used, including four subscales. It has been demonstrated that word lexical difficulty and word length affected the Persian-speaking 4-to-6-year-old childrens speech-in-noise performance. The PLNTs-PV can be used measuring speech-in-noise recognition in Persian-speaking preschool-aged children. We recommend managing the environments noise as one of the practical solutions to improve preschool-aged childrens speech recognition performance.