Factors Affecting the Recognition of Reverberant Speech by Elderly Listeners

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 414-431

  Halling, Dan C ^a   Humes, Larry E ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related processes; Aging; Auditory temporal processing; Reverberant speech; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034167396     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4302.414     Document Type: Article

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