Constraints on the processes responsible for the extrinsic normalization of vowels

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1195-1215

  Sjerps, Matthias J ^a   Mitterer, Holger ^a   McQueen, James M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensation; Extrinsic vowel normalization; Psycholinguistics; Speech perception; Speech vs. nonspeech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955834270     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0096-8     Document Type: Article

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