Stimulus variability and the phonetic relevance hypothesis: Effects of variability in speaking style, fundamental frequency, and speaking rate on spoken word identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2406-2416

  Sommers, Mitchell S ^a   Barcroft, Joe ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL THEORY;

PHONETIC RELEVANCE HYPOTHESIS; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPOKEN WORD IDENTIFICATION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645363015     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2171836     Document Type: Article

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