Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Publication Date

1-17-1977

Abstract

Assessment of articulatory productions is usually accomplished with picture stimuli to elicit responses from young subjects. The levels of scoring phonemes on articulation tests are two-way (correct/incorrect), four-way (correct, distortion, substitution and omission) or by narrow phonetic transcription. The stimuli presented range from scoring one phoneme in a one word response (Templin Darley Test of Articulation, 1960) to scoring one phoneme in different contexts across word boundaries (McDonald Deep Test of Articulation, 1964) to scoring several phonemes in a one word response (Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, 1969) to scoring several phonemes as the subject repeats a story to the examiner (Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, 1969). There is little available evidence indicating whether or not these differences in levels of stimuli effect inter- and intra-judge reliability. It was expected that a one word, one phoneme task (Templin Darley Test of Articulation, 1960) would be the most reliable test for both inter- and intra-judge reliability and that scoring several phonemes in a story sentence test (Goldman­Fristoe Test of Articulation, 1969) would be the least reliable for both inter- and intra-judge reliability.

Degree Name

Speech-Language Pathology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Speech and Hearing Sciences

First Committee Member (Chair)

Wayne Everett Swisher

Second Committee Member

John Tracy Lybolt

Third Committee Member

Mary Louise Bolton

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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