Lexical and Talker Effects on Word Recognition Among Native and Non-Native Listeners With Normal and Impaired Hearing.
Evidence suggests that word recognition depends on numerous talker-, listener-, and stimulus-related characteristics. The current study examined the effects of talker variability and lexical difficulty on spoken-word recognition among four groups of listeners: native listeners with normal hearing or...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 585 - 598 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
June 2002
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