spondee word

Audiology A word with 2 syllables–disyllabic, that is pronounced with equal emphasis the 1^st and 2^nd syllables–eg, baseball, toothbrush; SWs are used to test for auditory acuity in Pts with suspected hearing loss, and evaluate baseline hearing

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The SSW consists of 40 spondee word pairs (e.g., day-light, back-door) presented through TDH-39 headphones at a level of 55 dB HL.

Auditory difficulties in blast-exposed Veterans with clinically normal hearing

We tested the SRT in each ear by using an adaptive procedure and the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) W-1 spondee word list [17].

Audiometric hearing status of individuals with and without multiple sclerosis

Instead, our focus is on the most commonly used speech tests in clinical practice: the speech reception threshold (SRT) of spondee words, the word recognition score (WRS) of phonetically balanced words, most comfortable loudness (MCL), and uncomfortable loudness (UCL).

Speech audiometry

This test consisted of bisyllabic spondee words, for example, railroad, buckwheat, iceberg, woodchuck and horseshoe.

Speech Recognition Thresholds for Multilingual Populations

vowel identification test), and identify common spondee words in a closed set (score: 74% on the four-choice spondee test).

Surgical complications of cochlear implantation: A report of three cases and their clinical features