Spectral factors in the perception of vowel quantity in Icelandic

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-131

  Pind, Jörgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Higher order invariants; Icelandic; Speech perception; Vowel quantity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030167914     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00645.x     Document Type: Article

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