Word recognition materials for native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-79

  Nissen, Shawn L ^a   Harris, Richard W ^a   Dukes, Alycia ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Psychometric function; Speech audiometry; Taiwan Mandarin; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; COMPACT DISK; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TAIWAN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 46949091217     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2008/008)     Document Type: Article

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