Effect of frequency-modulation coherence for inharmonic stimuli: Frequency-modulation phase discrimination and identification of artificial double vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1314-1325

  Lyzenga, Johannes ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL DOUBLE VOWELS; FREQUENCY-MODULATION PHASE DISCRIMINATION; SINUSOIDAL CARRIERS; THREE ALTERNATIVE, FORCED-CHOICE TRIAL (3AFC) TRIAL;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 14844363861     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1856251     Document Type: Article

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