Effects of masking noise on vowel and sibilant contrasts in normal-hearing speakers and postlingually deafened cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 505-518

  Perkell, Joseph S ^a,b   Denny, Margaret ^a   Lane, Harlan ^a,c   Guenther, Frank ^a,b   Matthies, Melanie L ^a,b   Tiede, Mark ^a,d   Vick, Jennell ^e   Zandipour, Majid ^a,b   Burton, Ellen ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEEDBACK; HEARING AIDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

AUDITORY FEEDBACK; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; NORMAL-HEARING CONTROLS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846213644     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2384848     Document Type: Article

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