Simulating the acquisition of lexical tones from continuous dynamic input

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Gauthier, Bruno ^a   Shi, Rushen ^a   Xu, Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY CONTOURS; PHONETIC CATEGORIES; SPEECH SIGNAL;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; INFANT; NERVE NET; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247890092     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2716160     Document Type: Article

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