Children Discover the Spectral Skeletons in Their Native Language Before the Amplitude Envelopes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1245-1253

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Lowenstein, Joanna H ^a   Packer, Robert R ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children's speech perception; perceptual object formation; sine wave speech; speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69049089767     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015020     Document Type: Article

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