Contributions of lexical tone to Mandarin sentence recognition in hearing-impaired listeners under noisy conditions

Contributions of lexical tone to Mandarin sentence recognition in hearing-impaired listeners under noisy conditions

Mandarin sentence recognition using natural-tone and flat-tone sentences was tested in 22 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and 25 listeners with normal hearing (NH) in quiet, speech-shaped noise, and two-talker-babble conditions. While little effects of flat tones on sentence recognit...

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Main Authors: Li, N. (Author), Wang, S. (Author), Wang, X. (Author), Xu, L. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Acoustical Society of America 2019
Subjects:
adult
Adult
Asian continental ancestry group
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Audition
female
Female
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing-impaired listeners
human
Humans
Lexical tones
male
Male
middle aged
Middle Aged
noise
Noise
Noisy conditions
Normal hearing
pathophysiology
perception deafness
phonetics
Phonetics
Sensorineural hearing loss
Sentence recognition
signal noise ratio
Signal to noise ratio
Signal-To-Noise Ratio
speech perception
Speech Perception
Speech recognition
Speech-shaped noise
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