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Original Article

Psychometrically equivalent Russian speech audiometry materials by male and female talkers

Materiales de logoaudiometría en ruso psicométricamente equivalentes para hablantes masculinos y femeninos

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Pages 47-66 | Received 08 Aug 2006, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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