Misperceptions of spoken words: Data from a random sample of American English words

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 572-585

  Albert Felty, Robert ^a   Buchwald, Adam ^b   Gruenenfelder, Thomas M ^c   Pisoni, David B ^c  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ERROR RESPONSE; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SINGLE SEGMENTS; TARGET FREQUENCIES;

AUDITION;

ERRORS;

ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84880470380     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4809540     Document Type: Article

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