Perception of the [m]-[n] distinction in consonant-vowel (CV) and vowel-consonant (VC) syllables produced by child and adult talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1697-1711

  Ohde, Ralph N ^a   Haley, Katarina L ^b   Barnes, Christine W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BOUNDARIES; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PRODUCTION; TRANSITIONS SEGMENTS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644639580     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2140830     Document Type: Article

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