Contribution of consonant versus vowel information to sentence intelligibility for young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2365-2375

  Kewley Port, Diane ^a   Burkle, T Zachary ^a,b   Lee, Jae Hee ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cumberland Hearing Aids   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BASELINE PERFORMANCE; ELDERLY HEARING IMPAIRED (EHI); SENTENCE INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PRESBYCUSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34848911305     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2773986     Document Type: Article

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