Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone productions before and after perceptual training

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1033-1043

  Wang, Yue ^a   Jongman, Allard ^b   Sereno, Joan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

MANDARIN TONE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SPEECH THERAPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0037324802     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1531176     Document Type: Article

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