Vowel perception by noise masked normal-hearing young adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1101-1110

  Richie, Carolyn ^a,b   Kewley Port, Diane ^a   Coughlin, Maureen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

AUDIBILITY; HEARING LOSS; YOUNG HEARING-IMPAIRED (YHI) LISTENERS; YOUNG NORMAL-HEARING (YNH) ADULTS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 23744514250     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1944053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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