Identification of multi-speaker Mandarin tones in noise by native and non-native listeners

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 900-910

  Lee, Chao Yang ^a   Tao, Liang ^a   Bond, Z S ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mandarin tones; Noise; Speaker variability; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

FIRST-YEAR; MANDARIN TONES; NOISE; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; REACTION TIME; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 78649332959     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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