Consonant recognition loss in hearing impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2683-2694

  Phatak, Sandeep A ^a   Yoon, Yang Soo ^b   Gooler, David M ^c   Allen, Jont B ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROCEDURE; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; GRAPHICAL METHODS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PRESENTATION LEVEL; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AUDITION; GRAPHIC METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 70449396674     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238257     Document Type: Article

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