The influence of linguistic content on the Lombard effect

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 209-220

  Patel, Rupal ^a   Schell, Kevin W ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modifications; Linguistic content; Lombard effect; Prosody; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LOMBARD PROCEDURE; MALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH RATE; SPEECH THERAPY; VOICE CHANGE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 38849146557     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/016)     Document Type: Article

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