Effects of differences in fundamental frequency on across-formant grouping in speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3667-3677

  Summers, Robert J ^a   Bailey, Peter J ^b   Roberts, Brian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC MASKING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GLOTTAL SOURCE; ISOLATED SYLLABLE; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME-REVERSED; WHETHER DIFFERENCES;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952146836     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3505119     Document Type: Article

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