Acceptance of background noise levels in bilingual (Korean-English) listeners

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 649-658

  von Hapsburg, Deborah ^a   Bahng, Junghwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Background noise; Bilingual; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750173482     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.9.4     Document Type: Article

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