Perception of interrupted speech: Effects of dual-rate gating on the intelligibility of words and sentences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2076-2087

  Shafiro, Valeriy ^a   Sheft, Stanley ^a   Risley, Robert ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL RATES; DUTY CYCLES; HIGH RATE; MEMORY LOAD; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SINGLE RATE; SPEECH MATERIALS; SQUARE-WAVE;

EXPERIMENTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255169033     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3631629     Document Type: Article

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