Lexical tone perception in musicians and non-musicians

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 397-400

  Alexander, Jennifer A ^a   Wang, Patrick C M ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

LEXICAL TONE PERCEPTION; MUSICIANS; PITCH-PROCESSING DOMAIN;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 33745194160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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