The effect of phonological neighborhood density on vowel articulation

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1048-1058

  Munson, Benjamin ^a   Solomon, Nancy Pearl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements; Adults; Phonological neighborhood density; Vowels; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBALIZATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 8544244896     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/078)     Document Type: Article

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