General perceptual contributions to lexical tone normalization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3983-3994

  Huang, Jingyuan ^a   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LEXICAL TONES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING; SPEECH CONTEXTS; TONE LANGUAGES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649103966     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3125342     Document Type: Article

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