Development and evaluation of methods for assessing tone production skills in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1653-1664

  Zhou, Ning ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; LEXICAL TONES; NORMAL-HEARING (NH) CHILDREN;

HEARING AIDS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SOUND; SPEECH;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 40749099305     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2832623     Document Type: Article

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