The separation between music and speech: Evidence from the perception of Cantonese tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2711-2720

  Mok, P K Peggy ^a   Zuo, Donghui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANTONESE; CONTROL SUBJECT; LEXICAL TONES; MUSICAL TONES; PURE TONES; TONE LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS; SEPARATION;

MERGING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MUSIC; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867352706     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4747010     Document Type: Article

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