The relation between identification and discrimination of vowels in young and elderly listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3597-3607

  Coughlin, Maureen ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a   Humes, Larry E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS;

EID: 0032431394     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423942     Document Type: Article

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