Reception thresholds for sentences in quiet and noise for monolingual english and bilingual mandarin-english listeners

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-248

  Stuart, Andrew ^a   Zhang, Jianliang ^a   Swink, Shannon ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Noise; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950824166     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.21.4.3     Document Type: Article

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