Cues for perception of synthetic and natural diphthongs in either noise or reverberation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1742-1753

  Nábělek, Anna K ^a   Ovchinnikov, Alexandra ^a   Czyzewski, Zbigniew ^a,b   Crowley, Hilary J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Emerson Computational Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; HEARING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029912296     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415238     Document Type: Article

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