Relationship between consonant recognition in noise and hearing threshold

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 460-473

  Yoon, Yang Soo ^a   Allen, Jont B ^b   Goolerb, David M ^b  

^a HOUSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiometric hearing threshold; Consonant confusions; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859392287     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0239)     Document Type: Article

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