Changes in the perception of synthetic nasal consonants as a result of vowel formant manipulations

Speech Communication

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 173-189

  Harding, Sue ^a   Meyer, Georg ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Formant continuity; Nasal consonants; Proximity grouping

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; EXTRAPOLATION; FREQUENCIES; PATTERN MATCHING;

PROXIMITY GROUPING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037290570     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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