Frequency discrimination of stylized synthetic vowels with a single formant

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1755-1767

  Lyzenga, Johannes ^a,b   Horst, J Wiebe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Psychology Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030821577     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420085     Document Type: Article

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