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International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests

ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests

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Pages 17-22 | Received 23 Nov 2014, Accepted 12 Mar 2015, Published online: 29 Apr 2015

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