Learning to perceptually organize speech signals in native fashion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1624-1635

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Lowenstein, Joanna H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE; COGNITIVE PROCESS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; SENSORY INFORMATION; SINE-WAVE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; TOPDOWN;

LINGUISTICS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950379388     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3298435     Document Type: Article

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