Effects of deafness on acoustic characteristics of American English tense/lax vowels in maternal speech to infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1039-1049

  Kondaurova, Maria V ^a   Bergeson, Tonya R ^a   Dilley, Laura C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; ACOUSTIC CUES; AMERICAN ENGLISH; FORMANT FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS; PHONETIC PROPERTIES; SPEECH SOUNDS; VOWEL SPACE;

AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PHONETICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84865087036     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4728169     Document Type: Article

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