Hearing aid low frequency cut: Effect on mandarin tone and vowel perception in normal-hearing listeners

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 179-187

  Zhang, Jianxing ^a   McPherson, Bradley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amplification; Chinese; Hearing aid; Mandarin; Noise; Speech intelligibility; Tone

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINESE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOW FREQUENCY CUT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TECHNIQUE; VOWEL; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHINA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 49749128418     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000128276     Document Type: Article

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