Perception of synthetic vowels by monolingual Canadian-English, Mexican-Spanish, and Peninsular-Spanish listeners

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

FORMANT VALUES; MODAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL CHANGES;

EID: 60449102270     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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