Table 6.
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients and p values obtained for weighting of fricative-noise spectra and formant transitions in sa-sha labeling task and each of three phonemic awareness tasks and word recognition. Precise p values are shown when p < .10.
| Groups | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | NH | CIs | ||||
| r | p | r | p | r | p | |
| N | 77 | 47 | 30 | |||
| Fricative-noise spectrum | ||||||
| Initial consonant choice | .35 | .002 | .24 | -- | .17 | -- |
| Final consonant choice | .48 | <.001 | .36 | .014 | .32 | .089 |
| Phoneme deletion | .36 | .001 | .31 | .034 | .33 | .081 |
| Word recognition | .43 | <.001 | .14 | -- | .09 | -- |
| Formant transitions | ||||||
| Initial consonant choice | .16 | -- | −.09 | -- | .06 | -- |
| Final consonant choice | .27 | .019 | −.04 | -- | .17 | -- |
| Phoneme deletion | .28 | .013 | .27 | .065 | .08 | -- |
| Word recognition | .39 | <.001 | .15 | -- | −.11 | -- |