The role of formant amplitude in the perception of /i/ and /u/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2611-2621

  Kiefte, Michael ^a   Enright, Teresa ^a   Marshall, Lacey ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTABILITY; IDENTIFICATION DATA; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; SIMULTANEOUS MASKING; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL PEAK FREQUENCY; VOWEL PERCEPTION; VOWEL STIMULI;

EXPERIMENTS; PACKET NETWORKS;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954080262     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3353124     Document Type: Article

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