Acoustic and articulatory correlates of stop consonants in a parrot and a human subject

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2197-2215

  Patterson, D K ^a   Pepperberg, I M ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; PARROTS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0031959267     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421365     Document Type: Article

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