Reduced speech perceptual acuity for stop consonants in individuals who stutter

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 276-289

  Neef, Nicole E ^a   Sommer, Martin ^a   Neef, Andreas ^a,c   Paulus, Walter ^a   von Gudenberg, Alexander Wolff ^b   Jung, Kristina ^b   Wüstenberg, Torsten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of the Kassel Stuttering Therapy   (Germany)

^c Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phoneme categorization; Speech perception; Stuttering; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PILOT STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUTTERING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PILOT PROJECTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUTTERING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857430510     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0224)     Document Type: Article

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