A study of regressive place assimilation in spontaneous speech and its implications for spoken word recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2340-2353

  Dilley, Laura C ^a,b   Pitt, Mark A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CANONICAL PRONUNCIATIONS; GLOTTALIZATION; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; PHONETIC LABELING DATA; REGRESSIVE PLACE ASSIMILATION; SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION; UNSCRIPTED SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; LIP; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848883582     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2772226     Document Type: Article

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