Effect of acoustic cues on labeling fricatives and affricates

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 925-938

  Hedrick, Mark ^a,b  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consonant perception; Sensorineural hearing loss; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030803936     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4004.925     Document Type: Article

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