Bi-syllabic, Modern Greek word lists for use in word recognition tests

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-82

  Iliadou, Vassiliki ^a,d   Fourakis, Marios ^b   Vakalos, Angelos ^a   Hawks, John W ^a,c   Kaprinis, George ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Kent State University ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek; Speech audiometry; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 29244475768     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020500376529     Document Type: Article

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