Attenuation of vocal responses to pitch perturbations during Mandarin speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2299-2306

  Liu, Hanjun ^a   Xu, Yi ^b   Larson, Charles R ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL TIME; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PLANNING PROCESS; QUESTION INTONATIONS; RESPONSE MAGNITUDES; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; SPEECH PRODUCTIONS; VOICE PITCHES;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649098030     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3081523     Document Type: Article

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