Elderly listeners' identification of Japanese long vowel pair `obasan' and `obaasan' using pitch and duration

Japanese has long and short vowel distinction. While duration is the primary cue for listeners, pitch is being used as the secondary cue when duration becomes ambiguous. Duration however is affected by phonetic environment and therefore pitch cues may be more important in daily conversations. At the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Acoustical Science and Technology 2019/03/01, Vol.40(2), pp.105-115
Hauptverfasser:	Hui, C. T. Justine, Arai, Takayuki
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ageing Japanese long vowels Older people Pitch Pitch perception Resonant frequencies Speech perception Speech recognition
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