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CLuster IDentification Test (CLID)

   

Status Completely developed architecture with software for generating tests to evaluate intelligibility at the word level: item construction, test administration, and data analysis [Jekosch (1992)].
Goal Diagnostic  and comparative evaluation of the intelligibility
of sequences of one or more consonants (``consonant clusters '') and sequences of one or more vowels (``vowel clusters'').
Languages In principle any language, as long as matrices with permissible phoneme  and phoneme  combinations are available.
Items Mostly meaningless but also (by chance) meaningful, open vocabulary  taking into account phonotactic constraints ; combinatory matrices are available for English, French, German, and Italian. The frequency of the syllable  structures (e.g. CCVCC, VCC) and clusters to be included in the test material can be defined. Examples: storp and ast.
Procedure Open response identification  using unambiguous notation or normal spelling.
Time With 900 stimulus words (presented by [Jekosch (1992)], about 2 hours per synthesiser. However, subsets of stimuli can also be defined.
Analysis The SOAP  scoring module allows, among other things, the calculation of percentages correct of all clusters, of initial, medial, and final clusters separately, and of complete items. Confusion matrices   are generated.



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