Effects of syllable-final segment duration on the identification of synthetic speech continua by birds and humans

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2779-2787

  Welch, Thomas E ^a   Sawusch, James R ^a   Dent, Micheal L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SHIFTS; COMPARATIVE APPROACH; HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION; NORMALIZATION EFFECT; SEGMENT DURATION; SPEAKING RATE; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; NONHUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70449429392     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3212923     Document Type: Article

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