Perception of musical and lexical tones by Taiwanese-speaking musicians

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 526-535

  Lee, Chao Yang ^a   Lee, Yuh Fang ^a   Shr, Chia Lin ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PITCH; ACOUSTIC CUES; LEXICAL TONES; MUSICAL TONES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION;

SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960689311     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3596473     Document Type: Article

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