Spectral balance as a cue in the perception of linguistic stress

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 503-513

  Sluijter, Agaath M C ^a,b   Van Heuven, Vincent J ^a   Pacilly, Jos J A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KPN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STRESS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031022209     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417994     Document Type: Article

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