The perception of prosody and speaker gender in normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant recipients

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-48

  Meister, Hartmut ^a   Landwehr, Markus ^a   Pyschny, Verena ^a   Walger, Martin ^a   Wedel, Hasso Von ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Fundamental frequency; Prosody; Speaker gender

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60749125264     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802293539     Document Type: Article

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