Childrens recognition of American English consonants in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3177-3188

  Nishi, Kanae ^a   Lewis, Dawna E ^a   Hoover, Brenda M ^a   Choi, Sangsook ^a   Stelmachowicz, Patricia G ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CHILDRENS; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; ERROR PATTERNS; ERROR PRONES; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956242047     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3377080     Document Type: Article

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