A developmental study of the perception of onset spectra for stop consonants in different vowel environments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 3800-3812

  Ohde, Ralph N ^a   Haley, Katarina L ^a   Vorperian, Houri K ^a   McMahon, Christine W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISORDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029024990     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.412395     Document Type: Article

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