The effects of phonemic compression and anti-upward-spread-of-masking (anti-USOM) on the perception of articulatory features in hearing-impaired listeners

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 414-428

  Goedegebure, André ^a   Goedegebure Hulshof, Marieke ^b,c   Verschuure, Hans ^b   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c De Mondriaan Onderwijsgroep   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Articulatory features; Hearing impaired; Individual difference scaling (INDSCAL); Phoneme confusions; Phonemic compression; Sequential information analysis (SINFA); Upward spread of masking (USOM)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CONSONANT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036781873     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992020209090419     Document Type: Article

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