Abstract: This chapter focuses on research that has investigated whether speech perception, the initial encoding of linguistic input, may be a plausible candidate: several of the deficits accompanying poor reading achievement could conceivably stem from deficits in the underlying quality of phoneme percepts. Research conducted to investigate whether speech-perception deficits are common for struggling readers has primarily used three measures of speech perception: categorical perception, nonword repetition, and speech in noise. Speech repetition has frequently been used to investigate phonological processes related to reading ability. Research aimed at investigating listening difficulties in noisy backgrounds highlights the impact of the spectral characteristics of the masker on the perception of a simultaneous speech signal. A further area of research using the categorical perception procedure has investigated the influence of developmental weighting strategies on identification responses. The majority of studies have looked at the relationship between speech perception in noise and reading abilities by using cross-sectional designs.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-03-18
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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