Age-related differences in the sequential organization of speech sounds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4177-4187

  Hutka, Stefanie A ^a   Alain, Claude ^a   Binns, Malcolm A ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; OLDER ADULTS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TEMPORAL ORDER JUDGMENTS; VOWEL SOUNDS; YOUNG ADULTS;

AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878946200     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4802745     Document Type: Article

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