Linguistic Materials and Metrics for the Creation of Well-Controlled Swedish Speech Perception Tests

Autor/inn/en	Witte, Erik; Köbler, Susanne
Titel	Linguistic Materials and Metrics for the Creation of Well-Controlled Swedish Speech Perception Tests
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62 (2019) 7, S.2280-2294 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Perception Tests; Speech; Swedish; Vocabulary; Mathematics; Phonetics; Dictionaries; Databases + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speaking; Sprechen; Schwedisch; Wortschatz; Mathematik; Phonetik; Fonetik; Dictionary; Wörterbuch; Datenbank
Abstract	Purpose: As factors influencing human word perception are important in the construction of speech perception tests used within the speech and hearing sciences, the purposes of this study were as follows--first, to develop algorithms that can be used to calculate different types of word metrics that influence the speed and accuracy of word perception and, second, to create a database in which those word metrics were calculated for a large set of Swedish words. Method: Based on a revision of a large Swedish phonetic dictionary, data and algorithms were developed by which various frequency metrics, word length metrics, semantic metrics, neighborhood metrics, phonotactic metrics, and orthographic transparency metrics were calculated for each word in the dictionary. Of the various word metric algorithms used, some were Swedish language reimplementations of previously published algorithms, and some were developed in this study. Results: The results of this study have been gathered in a Swedish word metric database called the "AFC-list." The AFC-list consists of 816,404 phonetically transcribed Swedish words, all supplied with the word metric data calculated. The full AFC-list has been made publicly available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Conclusion: The results of this study constitute an extensive linguistic resource for the process of selecting test items in new well-controlled speech perception tests in the Swedish language. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01