Recognition of time-compressed and natural speech with selective temporal enhancements by young and elderly listeners

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1181-1193

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^b   Friedman, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatrics; Sensorineural hearing loss; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; TIME; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35848929274     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/082)     Document Type: Article

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