Cochlear Implant Evaluations of Spanish-Speaking Adults: Linguistic Comparison of Two Spanish-Sentence Perception Tests

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the linguistic content of the Spanish HINT and the Spanish AzBio sentence tests. The results revealed that the Spanish AzBio is linguistically more complex as compared with the Spanish HINT in terms of sentence length, complexity, and grammatical structure.

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cochlear implants/hearing aids technology hearing assessment adult age cultural/linguistic diversity

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