On the perception of voicing in syllable-initial plosives in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1092-1105

  Jiang, Jintao ^a,b   Chen, Marcia ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUIET ENVIRONMENTS; SYLLABLE-INITIAL PLOSIVES; VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT); WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 31744433656     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2149841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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