Dynamic spectral structure specifies vowels for children and adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2328-2339

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC SPECTRAL STRUCTURE; STEADY-STATE VOWELS; VOWEL PERCEPTION; VOWEL QUALITY;

SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STEADY STATE; STIMULATION; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848861317     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2769624     Document Type: Article

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