Accurate recovery of articulator positions from acoustics: New conclusions based on human data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1819-1834

  Hogden, John ^a   Lofqvist, Anders ^b   Gracco, Vince ^b   Zlokarnik, Igor ^a   Rubin, Philip ^b   Saltzman, Elliot ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 0029843107     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.416001     Document Type: Article

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