Relationships between auditory impressions and onomatopoeic features for environmental sounds

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 67-79

  Takada, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Kazuhiko ^b   Iwamiya, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic property; Auditory Impression; Environmental sound; Factor analysis; Onomatopoeic representation; Phonetic feature

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMANTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; AUDITORY IMPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND; FACTOR ANALYSIS; ONOMATOPOEIC REPRESENTATION; PHONETIC FEATURE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 33645167001     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.27.67     Document Type: Article

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