Some difference limens for the perception of breathiness

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 416-423

  Shrivastav, Rahul ^a   Sapienza, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; HARMONIC GENERATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADAPTIVE LISTENING TASK; HARMONIC ENERGY; LIMENS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASSOCIATION; BREATHINESS; BREATHING; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33745744509     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2208457     Document Type: Article

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