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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Speech and Hearing Science"”.
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The Effect of Voice Lessons on the Clinical and Perceptual Skills of Graduate Students in Speech and Hearing Science
Two groups of ten speech-language pathology graduate students were each given a half semester of singing lessons to determine whether voice lessons can have effect on their clinical and perceptual skills. Pre-, mid-, and posttests to measure various skills were designed and implemented. …
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Discrimination of Tone Contrasts in Mandarin Disyllables by Naïve American English Listeners
<p>The present study examined the perception of Mandarin disyllabic tones by inexperienced American English speakers. Participants heard two naturally-produced Mandarin disyllables, and indicated if the two were the same or different. A small native Mandarin-speaking control group participated as …
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The Effect of Cochlear Dysfunction on Central Auditory Speech Test Performance
… of cochlear dysfunction on central auditory speech test performance. There has been limited research reported concerning the effects of peripheral hearing loss occurring in the absence of central auditory pathology on tests specifically designed to diagnose central auditory impairment. …
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Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension
… utterance to confirm or adjust its predictions, and (c) the parser has the ability to make on-line revisions based on the syntactic information contained within the utterance.</p> <p>In the first experiments using tachistoscopic presentation, 75 sentences representing 15 different sentence types …
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Predicting Consonant Confusions in Noise on the Basis of Acoustical Analyses
<p>No abstract provided.</p>
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Optimizing performance outcomes for bilateral cochlear implant users to offset suboptimal electrode pairings
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… 2007). Therefore, Haitian Creole (HC) is a candidate for restructuring. In this investigation we compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception level between two groups of early learners of Haitian Creole (i.e. native speakers vs. …
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Examiner Bias and Intelligence Test Scoring : a Study of the Effect of Speech-Handicapped Responses on the Scoring of the WISC-R Comprehension Subtest
… is bias in intelligence tests. Examiner bias and the expectancy effect is largely ignored. An unexplored variable in the research is an examinee's speech handicap and the effect it may produce in the scoring of an intelligence test.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Identical responses to the Comprehension …
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A Survey of Needs for, and Availability of, Referral Sources for the Yucaipa Joint Unified School District Speech and Hearing Therapy Program
<p><strong>[Abstract Not Included]</strong></p>
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Speech Motor Control in Younger and Older Adults: The Effect of Age and Individual Differences on Speech Error Production
… dissertation investigates three main issues in speech motor control, all of which are explored through the lens of speech error production. The speech error elicitation task used is the alternating onset, identical coda (e.g. ‘top cop’) paradigm, which in this incarnation is executed in time to …
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Communicative Competence In Persons With Aphasia: The Impact Of Executive Function
… the relationship between executive function and performance on selected linguistic tasks in persons with aphasia secondary to left frontal lesions.</p> <p>A group of 15 persons with aphasia (PWA) completed three communication board tasks of varying levels of complexity and structure. The …
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A Videoflouroscopic Study of Postlaryngectomized Esophageal Speakers
… structure of the post-laryngectomee and quality of esophageal speech. An attempt was also made to correlate radiation and radical neck procedures with quality of esophageal speech.</p> <p>A videofluoroscopic examination of the post-laryngectomized site was performed while 18 subjects …
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