A Slovenian Sentence Matrix Test for Speech Audiometry with Special Emphasis on Phonemic Distribution

Authors

  • Tatjana Marvin Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
  • Saba Battelino Medicinska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
  • Samo Beguš Fakulteta za elektrotehniko Univerze v Ljubljani
  • Jure Derganc Medicinska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani

Keywords:

Slovenian, matrix sentence test, phoneme, speech audiometry

Abstract

This paper presents a word selection process in a Slovenian matrix sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements. We focus on phonemic distribution in the test, which should be approximated as closely as possible to distribution in the language. We establish a phonemic distribution for Slovenian by combining the orthographic distribution in the corpus ccKres and the phonetic distribution in Mihelič (2006) for cases where the orthographic record does not correspond to the phonetic one. The result is a proposal of a phonemically balanced matrix test for Slovenian.

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Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Marvin, T., Battelino, S., Beguš, S. . and Derganc, J. . (2019) “A Slovenian Sentence Matrix Test for Speech Audiometry with Special Emphasis on Phonemic Distribution”, Slavistična revija, 67(4), pp. 537–550. Available at: https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/2019-4-1-1 (Accessed: 18 July 2024).

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