Talkers alter vowel production in response to real-time formant perturbation even when instructed not to compensate

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 384-390

  Munhall, K G ^a   MacDonald, E N ^a   Byrne, S K ^a   Johnsrude, I ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMANT FREQUENCIES; FORMANT VALUES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (FF); PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HEADPHONES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHONETICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649118637     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3035829     Document Type: Article

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