Temporal fine structure in cochlear implants: Preliminary speech perception results in Cantonese-speaking implant users

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1031-1039

  Schatzer, Reinhold ^a   Krenmayr, Andreas ^a   Au, Dennis K K ^b   Kals, Mathias ^a   Zierhofer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coding strategy; Lexical tones; Selected groups; Speech perception; Temporal pitch; Tonal language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CODING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING TESTS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956029905     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016481003591731     Document Type: Article

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