Syllable structure and integration of voicing and manner of articulation information in labial consonant identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4076-4086

  Silbert, Noah H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC CUES; CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; FRICATIVE CONSONANTS; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SOUNDS; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL CUES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863793900     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3699209     Document Type: Article

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47. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3699209 E-JASMAN-131-022205 for spectrograms and scatter plots of acoustic measures for the stimuli used here. These are available by request from the author.