Acoustic cues to tonal contrasts in Mandarin: Implications for cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2815-2824

  Kuo, Yu Ching ^a,b   Rosen, Stuart ^b   Faulkner, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (F0); MANDARIN; NATIVE SPEAKERS; SAWTOOTH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESINS, PLANT; TAIWAN;

EID: 43549100661     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2896755     Document Type: Article

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