Amplitude variations in coarticulated vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2750-2768

  Jacewicz, Ewa ^a   Fox, Robert Allen ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

AUDITORY SPECTRA; CONSONANTAL CONTEXT; VOWEL PERCEPTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43549107048     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2897034     Document Type: Article

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