Performance of bilingual speakers on the english and spanish versions of the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT)

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-17

  Weiss, Deborah ^a   Dempsey, James J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Linguistic competence; Speech recognition in noise; Speech recognition in quiet

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING IN NOISE TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 45249084291     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.19.1.2     Document Type: Article

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