The relative roles of vowels and consonants in discriminating talker identity versus word meaning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1727-1739

  Owren, Michael J ^a,b   Cardillo, Gina C ^a,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT-INITIAL VOWELS-ONLY STIMULI; EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS; HEARING TALKER IDENTITY; VOWEL-INITIAL VOWELS-ONLY STIMULI;

ACOUSTICS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33644660162     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2161431     Document Type: Article

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