Psychometrically equivalent spondaic words spoken by a female speaker

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1336-1346

  Wilson, Richard H ^a   Strouse, Anne ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Compact disc; Equivalency; Homogeneity; Psychometric function; Rms; Speech perception; Spondaic word threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPACT DISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032784367     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4206.1336     Document Type: Article

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