Individual differences in cue weights are stable across time: The case of Japanese stop lengths

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3950-3964

  Idemaru, Kaori ^a   Holt, Lori L ^b   Seltman, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; CUE WEIGHTING; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATIVENESS; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTUAL SYSTEM; SPEECH INPUT; SPEECH PRODUCTION;

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870923604     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4765076     Document Type: Article

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