ALEXINA WHITLEY Alexina.Whitley@nottingham.ac.uk
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Used to be a dime, now it’s a dollar: R-SPiN keyword predictability revisited 40 years on
Whitley, Alexina; Naylor, Graham; Hadley, Lauren V.
Authors
GRAHAM NAYLOR GRAHAM.NAYLOR@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Hearing Sciences
Dr LAUREN HADLEY LAUREN.HADLEY1@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Principal Research Fellow
Abstract
Purpose:
Almost 40 years after its development, in this article, we reexamine the relevance and validity of the ubiquitously used Revised Speech Perception in Noise (R-SPiN) sentence corpus. The R-SPiN corpus includes “high-context” and “low-context” sentences and has been widely used in the field of hearing research to examine the benefit derived from semantic context across English-speaking listeners, but research investigating age differences has yielded somewhat inconsistent findings. We assess the appropriateness of the corpus for use today in different English-language cultures (i.e., British and American) as well as for older and younger adults.
Method:
Two hundred forty participants, including older (60–80 years) and younger (19–31 years) adult groups in the the United Kingdom and United States, completed a cloze task consisting of R-SPiN sentences with the final word removed. Cloze, as a measure of predictability, and entropy, as a measure of response uncertainty, were compared between culture and age groups.
Results:
Most critically, of the 200 “high-context” stimuli, only around half were assessed as highly predictable for older adults (United Kingdom: 109; United States: 107); and fewer still, for younger adults (United Kingdom: 75; United States: 81). We also found dominant responses to these “high-context” stimuli varied between cultures, with U.S. responses being more likely to match the original R-SPiN target.
Conclusions:
Our findings highlight the issue of incomplete transferability of corpus items across English-language cultures as well as diminished equivalency for older and younger adults. By identifying relevant items for each population, this work could facilitate the interpretation of inconsistent findings in the literature, particularly relating to age effects.
Citation
Whitley, A., Naylor, G., & Hadley, L. V. (2024). Used to be a dime, now it’s a dollar: R-SPiN keyword predictability revisited 40 years on. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(4), 1229-1242. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00615
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 13, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 2, 2024 |
Publication Date | Apr 8, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Jan 29, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 3, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research |
Print ISSN | 1092-4388 |
Electronic ISSN | 1558-9102 |
Publisher | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1229-1242 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00615 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/30489990 |
Publisher URL | https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00615 |
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