Predicting developmental shifts in perceptual weighting schemes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2253-2266

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Miller, Marnie E ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030893499     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418207     Document Type: Article

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