Development and validation of the Mandarin speech perception test

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Fu, Qian Jie ^a   Zhu, Meimei ^a   Wang, Xiaosong ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS; CHINESE CHARACTERS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEST MATERIALS; TESTING MATERIALS;

AUDITION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; LINGUISTICS;

MATERIALS TESTING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959394061     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3590739     Document Type: Article

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