Influence of voice similarity on talker discrimination in children with normal hearing and children with cochlear implants

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 204-223

  Cleary, Miranda ^a,c   Pisoni, David B ^a   Kirk, Karen Iler ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cochlear implant; Normal hearing; Talker perception; Voice similarity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 16344384753     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/015)     Document Type: Article

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