A psychoacoustic method to find the perceptual cues of stop consonants in natural speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2599-2610

  Li, Feipeng ^a   Menon, Anjali ^a   Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT SOUND; LOW QUALITIES; NATURAL SPEECH; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SHORT DURATIONS; SPEECH SOUNDS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VISUALIZATION TOOLS; WIDE-BAND;

VISUALIZATION; WHITE NOISE;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954069395     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3295689     Document Type: Article

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