Evidence for the central origin of lexical tone normalization (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1145-1148

  Huang, Jingyuan ^a   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY SENSITIVITY; CONTEXT EFFECTS; LEXICAL TONES; LOW FREQUENCY; SPEECH CONTEXTS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953050485     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3543994     Document Type: Article

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