Acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1791-1807

  Strange, Winifred ^a   Bohn, Ocke Schwen ^b   Trent, Sonja A ^c   Nishi, Kanae ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CROSS-LANGUAGE SPECTRAL SIMILARITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842530190     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1687832     Document Type: Article

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