Recognition of accented English in quiet by younger normal-hearing listeners and older listeners with normal-hearing and hearing loss

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 444-455

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Yeni Komshian, Grace H ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCENTED SPEECH; AGE EFFECTS; ENGLISH WORD; ERROR PATTERNS; HEARING LOSS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OLDER ADULTS; SPEECH MATERIALS;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATIENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955179944     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3397409     Document Type: Article

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