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The present study aimed to examine whether the response patterns to the chimeric lexical tone tokens, combined with their pure tone audiometry (PTA) results, could separate listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) from listeners with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD).

Case‐control study.

Forty‐three SNHL subjects and 46 ANSD subjects participated in a Mandarin lexical tone perception test using original and chimeric tone tokens. Ten sets of monosyllables, with four tone patterns for each, were processed through a 16‐channel chimeric synthesizer in which a temporal envelope (E) from a monosyllabic word of one tone was paired with a fine structure (FS) from the same monosyllable of other tones.

Significantly negative correlations were present between tone perception scores and PTA_{0.5–4 kHz} for both SNHL (P < 0.001) and …