Development of a mandarin monosyllable recognition test

Ear and Hearing
Kuen-Shian TsaiShuenn-Tsong Young

Abstract

This study aimed to develop a set of 50- and 25-item word lists that exhibited familiarity, homogeneity, and phonemic balance for a Mandarin monosyllable recognition test (MMRT). To achieve the design goal of high subject familiarity with the test material, we selected the 700 most frequently occurring monosyllables to be the test material. The homogeneity of the test material was achieved by evaluating five psychometric characteristics of these 700 monosyllables to obtain 348 homogeneous monosyllables with similar psychometric functions for constructing the word lists. The phonemic balance of the 50-item word lists was achieved by deriving the desired numbers of initials, finals, and tones in these lists according to their occurrence frequencies in 4733 monosyllabic words. The phonemic balance of the 25-item word lists was achieved by equally dividing the desired numbers of initials, finals, and tones in the 50-item word lists into two groups, called half-A and half-B lists. Three half-A lists and three half-B lists were constructed from the 348 homogeneous monosyllables, and they could be paired to form nine 50-item word lists. Accordingly, all of the MMRT word lists are familiar, homogeneous, and phonemically balanced. The h...Continue Reading

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