A Report on Evaluation of Lateral Articulation

Abstract

The reliability of articulation judgment depends on agreement in hearing impressions among multiple evaluators or within an individual evaluator. Although high agreement has been generally considered reliable, some scholars claim it is low agreement that shows reliability in the case of distorted articulation.
This paper deals with dictations of monosyllables by a child with lateral articulation. 15 evaluators provided judgment. Results were as follows. (1) For some monosyllables, most evaluators were able to distinguish correctly. (2) For some monosyllables, they almost all distinguished incorrectly. (3) For the remaining monosyllables, their judgments showed low coincidence.
These tendencies appeared even among judgments by individual evaluators. These findings suggest that reliabilidy of judgment is not predicated on this coincident evaluation of dictation, but rather on the number of right or wrong answers.