Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language.
Visual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to lipread. With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have...
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| author | Nina Suess Anne Hauswald Verena Zehentner Jessica Depireux Gudrun Herzog Sebastian Rösch Nathan Weisz |
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| description | Visual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to lipread. With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have an impact on lipreading abilities and (2) provide a tool to assess lipreading abilities for German speakers. 170 participants (22 prelingually deaf) completed the online assessment, which consisted of a subjective hearing impairment scale and silent videos in which different item categories (numbers, words, and sentences) were spoken. The task for our participants was to recognize the spoken stimuli just by visual inspection. We used different versions of one test and investigated the impact of item categories, word frequency in the spoken language, articulation, sentence frequency in the spoken language, sentence length, and differences between speakers on the recognition score. We found an effect of item categories, articulation, sentence frequency, and sentence length on the recognition score. With respect to hearing impairment we found that higher subjective hearing impairment is associated with higher test score. We did not find any evidence that prelingually deaf individuals show enhanced lipreading skills over people with postlingual acquired hearing impairment. However, we see an interaction with education only in the prelingual deaf, but not in the population with postlingual acquired hearing loss. This points to the fact that there are different factors contributing to enhanced lipreading abilities depending on the onset of hearing impairment (prelingual vs. postlingual). Overall, lipreading skills vary strongly in the general population independent of hearing impairment. Based on our findings we constructed a new and efficient lipreading assessment tool (SaLT) that can be used to test behavioral lipreading abilities in the German speaking population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d79f27c02e648ad8e3d2b8808c3c5272023-05-01T05:31:21ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01179e027558510.1371/journal.pone.0275585Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language.Nina SuessAnne HauswaldVerena ZehentnerJessica DepireuxGudrun HerzogSebastian RöschNathan WeiszVisual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to lipread. With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have an impact on lipreading abilities and (2) provide a tool to assess lipreading abilities for German speakers. 170 participants (22 prelingually deaf) completed the online assessment, which consisted of a subjective hearing impairment scale and silent videos in which different item categories (numbers, words, and sentences) were spoken. The task for our participants was to recognize the spoken stimuli just by visual inspection. We used different versions of one test and investigated the impact of item categories, word frequency in the spoken language, articulation, sentence frequency in the spoken language, sentence length, and differences between speakers on the recognition score. We found an effect of item categories, articulation, sentence frequency, and sentence length on the recognition score. With respect to hearing impairment we found that higher subjective hearing impairment is associated with higher test score. We did not find any evidence that prelingually deaf individuals show enhanced lipreading skills over people with postlingual acquired hearing impairment. However, we see an interaction with education only in the prelingual deaf, but not in the population with postlingual acquired hearing loss. This points to the fact that there are different factors contributing to enhanced lipreading abilities depending on the onset of hearing impairment (prelingual vs. postlingual). Overall, lipreading skills vary strongly in the general population independent of hearing impairment. Based on our findings we constructed a new and efficient lipreading assessment tool (SaLT) that can be used to test behavioral lipreading abilities in the German speaking population.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275585 |
| spellingShingle | Nina Suess Anne Hauswald Verena Zehentner Jessica Depireux Gudrun Herzog Sebastian Rösch Nathan Weisz Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. PLoS ONE |
| title | Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. |
| title_full | Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. |
| title_fullStr | Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. |
| title_short | Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language. |
| title_sort | influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the german language |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275585 |
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