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Original Article

Recognition of Low-Pass Filtered Words in a Noisy and Reverberant Environment with and Without Earmuffs

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Pages 223-227 | Received 12 Dec 1989, Accepted 26 Apr 1990, Published online: 12 Oct 2009

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