Role of experience for language-specific functional mappings of vowel sounds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3568-3582

  Kluender, Keith R ^a   Lotto, Andrew J ^b   Holt, Lori L ^a   Bloedel, Suzi L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

LANGUAGE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL MAPPINGS; LINEAR ASSOCIATION NETWORK MODEL; VOWEL SOUNDS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIRDS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032433266     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423939     Document Type: Article

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