Perception of the american english liquid /ra-la/ contrast by humans and monkeys

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 588-602

  Sinnott, Joan M ^a   Brown, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030855828     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419732     Document Type: Article

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