Production and perception of clear speech in Croatian and English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1677-1688

  Smiljanić, Rajka ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; PRODUCTION;

PHONOLOGY; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION; VOWEL INVENTORY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVERSATION; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 24944472214     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2000788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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