Development of a Mandarin monosyllable recognition test

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-99

  Tsai, Kuen Shian ^a   Tseng, Li Hui ^b   Wu, Cheng Jung ^b   Young, Shuenn Tsong ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANDARIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION; ASIAN; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64849102588     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31818f28a6     Document Type: Article

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