Vowel space characteristics and vowel identification accuracy

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 574-585

  Neel, Amy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech intelligibility; Speech perception; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VARIANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 46949094812     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/041)     Document Type: Article

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