Fricatives, affricates, and vowels in Croatian children with cochlear implants

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 845-856

  Mildner, Vesna ^a   Liker, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Affricates; Children; Cochlear implants; Fricatives; Vowels

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDING; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CROATIA; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56349127803     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200802130557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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