Are changes in pitch and formants enough to influence talker normalization processes in children and adults?

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 219-232

  Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a   Taitelbaum Swead, Riki ^a   Salomon, Rivka ^a   Slutzkin, Michal ^a   Amir, Noam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

speech perception; talker normalization; talker variability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VARIANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350066198     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2009.20.3.219     Document Type: Article

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