Listener adaptive characteristics of vowel devoicing in Japanese dialogue

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 768-778

  lmaizumi, Satoshi ^a   Hayashi, Akiko ^b   Deguchi, Toshisada ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH REHABILITATION; VOWEL;

CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; JAPAN; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUDENTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEACHING;

EID: 0029116784     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.413570     Document Type: Article

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