Speech interference in food courts of shopping centres

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-375

  Navarro, Manuelina Porto Nunes ^a   Pimentel, Roberto Leal ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Food courts; Speech interference

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; SHOPPING CENTERS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICAL DESIGN; FOOD COURTS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS (SPL); SPEECH INTERFERENCE;

SPEECH;

EID: 33845682583     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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