Role of F0 and amplitude in the perception of intervocalic glottal stops

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1182-1190

  Hillenbrand, James M ^a   Houde, Robert A ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency; Glottal stop; Speech acoustics; Speech perception; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; ACOUSTICS; AUDIOMETRY; CONSONANT; GLOTTIS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; VOICE; VOWEL;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029658133     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3906.1182     Document Type: Article

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