Development of a corpus of Mandarin sentences in babble with homogeneity optimized via psychometric evaluation

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 399-404

  Xi, Xin ^a   Ching, Teresa Y C ^b   Ji, Fei ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a   Li, Jia Nan ^a   Seymour, John ^b   Hong, Meng Di ^a   Chen, Ai Ting ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^b  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Noise; Pediatric; Psychoacoustics hearing science; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859784142     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2011.642011     Document Type: Article

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