Phonetic identification in quiet and in noise by listeners with cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2607-2617

  Munson, Benjamin ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORMANT TRANSITIONS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; NOISE; PHONETIC IDENTIFICATION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEARING LOSS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 26844457033     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2005887     Document Type: Article

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