The role of temporal cues in word identification by younger and older adults: Effects of sentence context

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3249-3260

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Yeni Komshian, Grace ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE EFFECTS; CONTEXT EFFECTS; CROSSOVER POINTS; HEARING LOSSES; ISOLATED WORDS; NATURAL SPEECHES; OLDER ADULTS; ONSET TIMES; TEMPORAL CUES; TO SWITCHES; TRANSITION DURATIONS; WORD IDENTIFICATIONS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56749160780     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2982409     Document Type: Article

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