Normal-hearing English-as-a-second-language listeners' recognition of English words in competing signals

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 260-270

  Shi, Lu Feng ^a  

^a Long Island University Brooklyn Campus ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; English as a second language; Length of learning; Masking; Music; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; MUSIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350490819     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802607431     Document Type: Article

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