Cues to perception of reduced flaps

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3317-3327

  Warner, Natasha ^a,b   Fountain, Amy ^a   Tucker, Benjamin V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS; ACOUSTIC VARIABILITIES; AMERICAN ENGLISH; APPROXIMANT; IDENTIFICATION DATUM; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 65549098183     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3097773     Document Type: Article

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