The acoustic analysis of tone differentiation as a means for assessing tone production in speakers of Cantonese

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1739-1748

  Barry, Johanna G ^a,b   Blamey, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

DEGREE OF DIFFERENTIATION; TONE PRODUCTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TAPE RECORDING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4444328288     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1779272     Document Type: Article

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