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Original Article

Speech masking release in listeners with flat hearing loss: Effects of masker fluctuation rate on identification scores and phonetic feature reception

Sustracción del efecto de enmascaramiento sobre el lenguaje en sujetos con hipoacusia de configuración plana: Efectos de la tasa de fluctuación del enmascarador sobre los puntajes de identificación y en la recepción de características fonéticas

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Pages 487-495 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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