Perceptual invariance of coarticulated vowels over variations in speaking rate

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2394-2405

  Stack, Janet W ^a   Strange, Winifred ^b   Jenkins, James J ^c   Clarke III, William D ^c   Trent, Sonja A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COARTICULATED VOWELS; CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT SYLLABLES; VOWEL-INHERENT-SPECTRAL-CHANGE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

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

EID: 33645373036     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2171837     Document Type: Article

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