Estimating vowel formant discrimination thresholds using a single-interval classification task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2323-2335

  Oglesbee, Eric ^a,b   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETHEL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRACKING; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURES; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; ISOLATED WORDS; NEW APPROACHES; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORIES; SPEECH STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; VOWEL;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 64649096203     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3086269     Document Type: Article

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