Talker differences in clear and conversational speech: Acoustic characteristics of vowels

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1241-1255

  Ferguson, Sarah Hargus ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Speech perception; Speech sound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35848946370     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/087)     Document Type: Article

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