Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1864-1877

  Moore, Corinne B ^a,b   Jongman, Allard ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Corp Tech Publ Diebold Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINESE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030758999     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420092     Document Type: Article

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