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Book: Phonetics for Speech Pathology

Chapter: 38. Psychoacoustic Experiments

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22774

Blurb:

This chapter introduces psychoacoustic experimentation, and notes the distinction between experiments requiring detection, discrimination, identification and scaling by the subjects. The chapter concludes with a description of a range of acoustic cues in speech perception discovered via psychoacoustic experiments.

Chapter Contributors

  • Martin Ball (martin.j.ball@liu.se - martinball) 'Linköping University'
  • Joan Rahilly (j.rahilly@qub.ac.uk - ehehjrah) 'Queen's University Belfast'
  • Orla Lowry (o.lowry@qub.ac.uk - olowry) 'Queen's University Belfast'
  • Nicola Bessell (N.Bessell@ucc.ie - nbessell) 'University College Cork'
  • Alice Lee (a.lee@ucc.ie - alee1) 'University College Cork'