Digit speech recognition thresholds (SRT) for non-native speakers of English

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-28

  Ramkissoon, Ishara ^a   Proctor, Adele ^a   Lansing, Charissa R ^a   Bilger, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Digits; Multilingual; Non native English; Speech audiometry; SRT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036625040     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2002/005)     Document Type: Article

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