Consonant identification in consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in speech-spectrum noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1609-1623

  Woods, David L ^a   Yund, E William ^b   Herron, Timothy J ^b   Cruadhlaoich, Matthew A I Ua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFIABILITY;

ERRORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LINGUISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950416934     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3293005     Document Type: Article

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