Development and Equivalence Evaluation of Mandarin Short Lists of Disyllables / 听力学及言语疾病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Short lists of Mandarin speech test materials (MSTMs) are compiled for clinical appli-cation based on Mandarin phonetic theories .Methods Thirty normal -hearing adults were included in this study , the average age was 23 .5 ± 1 .9 years old .According to phonological theory ,initial vowels and final consonants were classified ,abridged and then merged .Conventional oral words in daily lives were chosen in line with the merged syl-lables .The test lists were digitally recorded onto CDs .Primary equivalent assessment and test -retest reliability was conducted .Results Ten short lists of Mandarin disyllables were compiled on the basis of Chinese phonetic characteristics with 20 disyllables in each list .Twelve vowels were inspectedf ,l ,r ,m ,sh ,t- ,tu- ,ti- ,k- ,ku/o- ,qi- ,qü- ;16 consonants were inspectede ,ü ,uai/uei and iao/iou ,ie/üe ,ian/üan ,ong/iong ,en/eng ,in/ing .Con-clusion Ten short lists of disyllables have been compiled and digitally recorded with 20 disyllables in each list .Pre-liminary equivalent assessment and test -retest reliability were conducted but it needs further verification in order to make sure whether the short lists can meet the targets .