Linguistic Factors Influencing Speech Audiometric Assessment

Table 5

Means with standard deviations of the percentage of correct scores for verbal repetition based on the part of speech of the key words and the length of the test sentences.

	Mean	SD
Part of speech
Open	64.08	(7.71)
Closed	69.33	(15.84)
Sentence length
11 syllables	72.28	(14.83)
12 syllables	66.20	(13.45)
Part of speech    sentence length
Open
11 syllables	65.17	(7.51)
12 syllables	63.00	(7.88)
Closed
11 syllables	64.67	(10.08)
12 syllables	74.00	(19.05)
Open word classes: part of speech    sentence length
Adjectives
11 syllables	75.28	(11.88)
12 syllables	67.67	(5.17)
Adverbs
11 syllables	78.79	(15.53)
12 syllables	62.99	(8.22)
Nouns
11 syllables	71.23	(5.80)
12 syllables	67.33	(5.17)
Verbs
11 syllables	67.78	(8.88)
12 syllables	62.99	(8.22)