Does vocabulary knowledge influence speech recognition in adverse listening conditions?

Purpose: To investigate the effects of vocabulary, working memory, age, semantic context, and signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) on speech recognition in adverse conditions (multitalker babble) in normal-hearing listeners aged 18-35. First, a general hypothesis was tested that listeners with larger rece...

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Main Author: Dalrymple-Alford, Joseph
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9334