Acoustic Differences, Listener Expectations, and the Perceptual Accommodation of Talker Variability

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 391-409

  Magnuson, James S ^a,b   Nusbaum, Howard C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

phonetic constancy; speech perception; talker normalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34250182066     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.2.391     Document Type: Article

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