The recognition of isolated words and words in sentences: Individual variability in the use of sentence context

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 1000-1011

  Grant, Ken W ^a   Seitz, Philip F ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033961918     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428280     Document Type: Article

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