Perceptual Adaptation to Sinewave-Vocoded Speech Across Languages

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1607-1616

  Bent, Tessa ^a   Loebach, Jeremy L ^b   Phillips, Lawrence ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language; Degraded speech; Perceptual adaptation; Speech perception; Vocoded speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHONETICS; READING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHONETICS; READING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053946768     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024281     Document Type: Article

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