Quantification of the ecobehavioral impact of a soundfield loudspeaker system in elementary classrooms

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 819-833

  Palmer, Catherine V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom acostics; Ecobehavioral evaluation; Pediatric listeners; Soundfield amplification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031818683     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4104.819     Document Type: Article

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