Spectral structure across the syllable specifies final-stop voicing for adults and children alike

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 377-385

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Lowenstein, Joanna H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

PHONETIC STRUCTURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOICE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 37849003400     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2804950     Document Type: Article

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