Effect of relative amplitude, presentation level, and vowel duration on perception of voiceless stop consonants by normal and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3398-3407

  Hedrick, Mark S ^a,b   Jesteadt, Walt ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029967008     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.416981     Document Type: Article

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