Effects of Age and Hearing Sensitivity on the Use of Prosodic Information in Spoken Word Recognition

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 915-925

  Wingfield, Arthur ^a   Lindfield, Kimberly C ^b   Goodglass, Harold ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Onset gating; Word prosody; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034252353     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4304.915     Document Type: Article

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