Labelling and discrimination of a synthetic fricative continuum in noise: A study of absolute duration and relative onset time cues

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-18

  Formby, Craig ^a   Childers, Donald G ^b   Lalwani, Ajit L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fricatives; Masking; Noise induced hearing loss; Synthetic speech perception; Temporal acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

HUMANS; NOISE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20644435809     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3901.04     Document Type: Article

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