Concurrent vowel identification. I. Effects of relative amplitude and F0 difference

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2839-2847

  De Cheveigné, Alain ^a,b   Kawahara, Hideki ^b   Tsuzaki, Minoru ^b   Aikawa, Kiyoaki ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

EID: 0030927968     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418517     Document Type: Article

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