Effect of listener training on perceptual judgement of hypernasality

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 319-334

  Lee, Alice ^a   Whitehill, Tara L ^b   Ciocca, Valter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direct magnitude estimation; Hypernasality; Perceptual judgement; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL STUDENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLEFT PALATE; DYSARTHRIA; HEARING; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CLEFT PALATE; DYSARTHRIA; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SURGERY, ORAL; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649987671     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200802688596     Document Type: Article

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