The effect of segment duration on the perceptual integration of nasals for adult and child speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2486-2499

  Ohde, Ralph N ^a   Ochs, Marleen T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029794115     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417357     Document Type: Article

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