Why stress position bias?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2439-2451

  Van Heuven, Vincent J ^a   Menert, Ludmila ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; NOISE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029817193     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417952     Document Type: Article

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