Ensemble responses of the auditory nerve to normal and whispered stop consonants

Hearing Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 47-62

  Stevens, Hanna E ^a   Wickesberg, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Consonant; Speech; Whisper

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HISTOGRAM; LINGUISTICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VOICE;

EID: 0032928825     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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