The time course of auditory segregation: Concurrent vowels that vary in duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1866-1877

  McKeown, J Denis ^a   Patterson, Roy D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029131126     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.413373     Document Type: Article

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