Functional differences between vowel onsets and offsets in temporal perception of speech: Local-change detection and speaking-rate discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3379-3389

  Kato, Hiroaki ^a   Tsuzaki, Minoro ^a   Sagisaka, Yoshinori ^a,b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION;

VOWEL OFFSETS; VOWEL ONSETS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037945402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1568760     Document Type: Article

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