Perception and production of /r/ allophones improve with hearing from a cochlear implant

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3191-3202

  Matthies, Melanie L ^a,b   Guenther, Frank H ^a,b   Denny, Margaret ^b   Perkell, Joseph S ^a,b   Burton, Ellen ^b   Vick, Jennell ^b,c   Lane, Harlan ^b,d   Tiede, Mark ^b,e   Zandipour, Majid ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; ACOUSTIC VARIABILITIES; AUDITORY FEEDBACKS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; SPEECH MOTOR CONTROLS;

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH;

FEEDBACK;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEEDBACK; HEARING; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749175708     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2987427     Document Type: Article

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