Clear speech production of Korean stops: Changing phonetic targets and enhancement strategies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3909-3917

  Kang, Kyoung Ho ^a   Guion, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; CLEAR SPEECH; SOUND CHANGES; VOICE ONSET TIME;

ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

TARGETS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049098445     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2988292     Document Type: Article

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