Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment

Table 4

Means and standard deviations of the percentage of correct scores for verbal repetition based on syntactic structure and length of the test sentences.

	Mean	SD
Syntactic structure
Topic V Subj	70.04	(11.86)
Passives	62.92	(10.05)
Subordinated	69.51	(8.61)
Coordinated	69.77	(9.25)
Subject Relatives	78.00	(7.32)
Object Relatives	64.13	(8.84)
Sentence length
11 syllables	71.43	(9.49)
12 syllables	65.43	(9.52)
Syntactic structure sentence length
Topic V Subj
11 syllables	76.08	(10.06)
12 syllables	64.00	(10.46)
Passives
11 syllables	65.94	(8.62)
12 syllables	59.90	(10.60)
Subordinated
11 syllables	72.86	(8.05)
12 syllables	66.17	(7.93)
Coordinated
11 syllables	73.33	(9.07)
12 syllables	66.20	(8.09)
Subject Relatives
11 syllables	72.92	(16.44)
12 syllables	69.76	(12.54)
Object Relatives
11 syllables	61.67	(24.33)
12 syllables	70.95	(15.46)