The roles of fundamental frequency contours and sentence context in Mandarin Chinese speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jiuju ^a   Shu, Hua ^a   Zhang, Linjun ^b   Liu, Zhaoxing ^c   Zhang, Yang ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE SENTENCE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; LEXICAL TONES; MANDARIN CHINESE; TOPDOWN; WORD LISTS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880464334     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4811159     Document Type: Article

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