Sentence perception in listening conditions having similar speech intelligibility indices

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-40

  Gustafson, Samantha J ^a   Pittman, Andrea L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Bandwidth; Children; Speech intelligibility index; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650302471     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2010.521198     Document Type: Article

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