English consonant recognition in noise and in reverberation by Japanese and American listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 663-666

  Takata, Yoji ^a   Nábělek, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; HUMAN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0025126564     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.399769     Document Type: Article

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