The Japanese Audiological Society standardized a 57-syllable list for clinical hearing studies.

Evidence

In the first stage, nonsense words were composed by choosing the second syllable at random from the 50 Japanese syllables presented without parentheses in Table 1 . This is the list of syllables (57-S) recommended by the Japanese Audiological Society ( 2003 ) for use in clinical studies to facilitate comparison of behavioural data across studies. The first and third syllables in the words were then selected at random from the full set of 62 syllables in Table 1 . The set was enlarged to reduce the chance of listeners recognizing the restriction on the set used for the target syllable. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4055

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the standardized 57-S syllable set and its purpose of cross-study comparability — a useful methodological norm in audiology.