The relative importance of spectral tilt in monophthongs and diphthongs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1395-1404

  Kiefte, Michael ^a   Kluender, Keith R ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ATTENUATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

MONOPTHONGS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL TILT; VOWEL STIMULI;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 14844344683     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1861158     Document Type: Article

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