Effects of lengthened formant transition duration on discrimination and neural representation of synthetic CV syllables by normal and learning- disabled children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 2086-2096

  Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a   Nicol, Trent G ^a   McGee, Therese J ^a   Cunningham, Jenna ^a   Zecker, Steven G ^a   Carrell, Thomas D ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032867448     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427953     Document Type: Article

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