Formant discrimination in noise for isolated vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3119-3129

  Liu, Chang ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FORMANT FREQUENCIES; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; VOWELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 9644300996     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1802671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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