Performance of normal-hearing listeners on the time-compressed modified rhyme test.

This study sought to evaluate word discrimination performance of normal-hearing listeners on a time-compressed version of the modified rhyme test. Six lists (A-F) of the modified rhyme test were presented to 60 young normal-hearing adults at 0, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70% time-compression ratios. Results were consistent with earlier findings for the Northwestern University Auditory Test no. 6 and demonstrated that word discrimination decreased as a function of increasing percentage of time compression. Differences among the six lists were found to exist at high levels of time alteration.