Qualitative judgements of urban soundscapes: Questionning questionnaires and semantic scales

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 929-937

  Raimbault, Manon ^a  

^a GRECAU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MARKETING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL PATTERNS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC SCALES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33845944706     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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