Timing relations in speech and the identification of voice-onset times: A stable perceptual boundary for voicing categories across speaking rates

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-130

  Boucher, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE;

ADULT; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 0036371657     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194561     Document Type: Article

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