Recognition of accented English in quiet and noise by younger and older listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3152-3160

  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; COMMUNICATION TASK; ENGLISH SENTENCES; HEARING LOSS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NORMAL HEARING; OLDER PEOPLE; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

AUDITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; RECOGNITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PRESBYCUSIS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649571538     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3495940     Document Type: Article

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