FO processing and the separation of competing speech signals by listeners with normal hearing and with hearing loss

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1294-1306

  Summers, Van ^a   Leek, Marjorie R ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing speech task; Concurrent vowel identification; FO discrimination; FO processing; Hearing impairment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

EID: 0031672212     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4106.1294     Document Type: Article

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