Monosyllabic word recognition at higher-than-normal speech and noise levels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2431-2444

  Studebaker, Gerald A ^a   Sherbecoe, Robert L ^a   McDaniel, D Michael ^b   Gwaltney, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033004208     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426848     Document Type: Article

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