A psychoacoustic method for studying the necessary and sufficient perceptual cues of American English fricative consonants in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2663-2675

  Li, Feipeng ^a   Trevino, Andrea ^b   Menon, Anjali ^b   Allen, Jont B ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ACOUSTIC COMPONENTS; AMERICAN ENGLISH; FRICATIVE CONSONANTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME-FREQUENCY SPACE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84867364920     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4747008     Document Type: Article

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