Effects of spectral smearing on phoneme and word recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1807-1818

  Boothroyd, Arthur ^a   Mulhearn, Bethany ^a   Gong, Juan ^a   Ostroff, Jodi ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029796039     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.416000     Document Type: Article

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