Do 'Dominant Frequencies' explain the listener's response to formant and spectrum shape variations?

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 622-629

  Lindblom, Björn ^a   Diehl, Randy ^b   Creeger, Carl ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory representation; Dominant Frequency; Vowel quality perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; AUDITORY REPRESENTATION; AUDITORY-NERVE FIBERS; CARLSON; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EXCITATION PATTERN; FORMANT FREQUENCY; HUMAN EAR; IN-BUILDING; PHASE-LOCKING; PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPECTRAL TILT; SPECTRUM SHAPE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CODING; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; VOWEL QUALITY PERCEPTION;

LINGUISTICS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIMBER;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; FORESTS; FREQUENCIES; LOGGING; PERCEPTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349194010     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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