The mean matters: Effects of statistically defined nonspeech spectral distributions on speech categorization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2801-2817

  Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDITORY PROCESSING; PHONETIC CATEGORIZATION; SINE-WAVE TONES; SPEECH CATEGORIZATION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750302895     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354071     Document Type: Article

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