Individual talker differences in voice-onset-time: Contextual influences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3974-3982

  Theodore, Rachel M ^a,b   Miller, Joanne L ^a   Desteno, David ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELING; ONSET-TIME; SPEAKING RATE; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649112381     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3106131     Document Type: Article

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