Perceptual contributions to monosyllabic word intelligibility: Segmental, lexical, and noise replacement factors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3114-3125

  Fogerty, Daniel ^a   Humes, Larry E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR PATTERNS; ISOLATED WORDS; MONOSYLLABIC WORDS; NOISE LEVELS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; WORD ACCURACIES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LINGUISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; NOISE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649628196     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3493439     Document Type: Article

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