Lexical tone recognition with spectrally mismatched envelopes

Hearing Research

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 36-43

  Zhou, Ning ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Frequency compression; Mandarin Chinese tones; Shallow insertion; Spectral shift; Tone recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56249114489     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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