Effects of voicing in the recognition of concurrent syllables (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2860-2863

  Vestergaard, Martin D ^a   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC CANCELLATION;

TARGETS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549120071     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257582     Document Type: Article

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