Effect of acoustic dynamic range on phoneme recognition in quiet and noise by cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Fu, Qian Jie ^a   Shannon, Robert V ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032761019     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428148     Document Type: Article

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