Spectral tilt change in stop consonant perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 386-396

  Alexander, Joshua M ^a,b   Kluender, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

FORMANT PATTERNS; ONSET FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL TILT;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 37849022366     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2817617     Document Type: Article

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