Does Speaker Age Affect Speech Perception in Noise in Older Adults?
Purpose: To investigate the effects of speaker age, speaker gender, semantic context, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a listener’s hearing status on speech recognition and listening effort in older adults. We examined the hypothesis that older adults would recognize less speech and exert greater li...
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University of Canterbury. Department of Communication Disorders
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7825 |