Evaluation of various sets of acoustic cues for the perception of prevocalic stop consonants. I. Perception experiment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3852-3864

  Smits, Roel ^a   Ten Bosch, Louis ^a   Collier, René ^a  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOICE;

EID: 0029751094     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417241     Document Type: Article

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