Age-related differences in identification and discrimination of temporal cues in speech segments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2455-2466

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Yeni Komshian, Grace H ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^b   Barrett, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

NOISE-MASKED SUBJECTS; TWO-INTERVAL PARADIGM; VOICE-ONSET TIME;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645353073     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2171527     Document Type: Article

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