Using monkeys to explore perceptual "loss" versus "learning" models in English and Spanish voice-onset-time perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1585-1596

  Sinnott, Joan M ^a   Powell, Laura A ^a   Camchong, Jazmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT-VOWEL; CROSS-LANGUAGE RESEARCH; PERCEPTUAL LOSS; SYNTHETIC VOICE-ONSET-TIME SERIES;

AUDITION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINGUISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644656541     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2162440     Document Type: Article

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