Effects of speech processing strategy on Chinese tone recognition by Nucleus-24 cochlear implant users

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 501-508

  Fu, Qian Jie ^a   Hsu, Chuan Jen ^b,c   Horng, Mei Ji ^b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPREHENSION; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 4944225782     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000145125.50433.19     Document Type: Article

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