Speech Intelligibility

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 568-582

  Weismer, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept of speech intelligibility; Intelligibility estimates derived from orthographic or phonetic transcriptions; Measures of intelligibility for speech disorders; Predicting speech intelligibility; Segmental articulation and intelligibility; Speech intelligibility in speech disorders; Voice onset time (VOT) measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890701691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301007.ch35     Document Type: Chapter

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