Natural boundaries in gap detection are related to categorical perception of stop consonants

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 761-774

  Elangovan, Saravanan ^a   Stuart, Andrew ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHONETICS; SOUND; SPEECH; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149401529     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e318185ddd2     Document Type: Article

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