Research Article

Electroacoustic Comparison of Hearing Aid Output of Phonemes in Running Speech versus Isolation: Implications for Aided Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials Testing

Table 4

Results of post hoc tests for phoneme context interaction.

PhonemeRunning speech (mean (dB SPL), SE (dB))Isolation (mean (dB SPL), SE (dB)) -statistic, df valueCritical value

Overall level/a/97.89, 3.2596.41, 3.433.197, 90.011*0.025
/i/99.54, 2.3898.09, 2.552.856, 90.019*0.031
/u/89.46, 2.5987.62, 2.774.231, 90.002*0.006
/s/100.57, 1.3799.23, 1.643.506, 90.007*0.019
//100.93, 2.5299.42, 2.713.981, 90.003*0.013
/m/83.77, 2.1383.16, 2.390.954, 90.3650.050
/t/91.88, 2.2089.69, 2.672.425, 90.038*0.044
/g/88.57, 2.5488.1, 2.702.450, 90.037*0.038

Onset level/a/97.09, 3.4195.69, 3.672.376, 90.0420.042
/i/98.77, 2.4596.85, 2.642.588, 90.0290.025
/u/91.37, 2.6089.34, 2.913.143, 90.012*0.017
/s/99.16, 1.4496.97, 2.142.497, 90.0340.033
//99.08, 2.2496.63, 2.594.161, 90.002*0.008
/m/82.54, 2.2382.07, 2.480.634, 90.5420.050

*Indicates a statistically significant difference.