Selectivity of modulation interference for consonant identification in normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1665-1672

  Apoux, Frédéric ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; FREQUENCY REGIONS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40749152189     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2828067     Document Type: Article

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