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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamentals | |
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| Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters | |
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| The Sensation of Sound | |
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| The Propagation of Sound | |
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| Types of Sounds | |
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| Simple periodic waves | |
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| Complex periodic waves | |
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| Aperiodic waves | |
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| Acoustic Filters | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production: Deriving Schwa | |
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| Voicing | |
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| Voicing Quanta | |
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| Vocal Tract Filtering | |
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| Pendulums, Standing Waves, and Vowel Formants | |
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| Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Digital Signal Processing | |
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| Continuous versus Discrete Signals | |
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| Analog-to-Digital Conversion | |
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| Sampling | |
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| Quantization | |
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| Signal Analysis Methods | |
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| RMS amplitude | |
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| Fast Fourier transform (FFT) | |
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| Auto-correlation pitch tracking | |
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| Digital filters | |
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| Linear predictive coding (LPC) | |
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| Spectra and spectrograms | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Basic Audition | |
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| Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System | |
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| The Auditory Sensation of Loudness | |
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| Frequency Response of the Auditory System | |
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| Saturation and Masking | |
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| Auditory Representations | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Speech Perception | |
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| Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception | |
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| Phonetic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception | |
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| Categorical perception | |
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| Phonetic coherence | |
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| Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception | |
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| Perceptual Similarity | |
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| Maps from distances | |
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| The perceptual map of fricatives | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Speech Analysis | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Tube Models of Vowel Production | |
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| Perturbation Theory | |
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| "Preferred" Vowels - Quantal Theory and Adaptive Dispersion | |
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| Vowel Formants and the Acoustic Vowel Space | |
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| Auditory and Acoustic Representations of Vowels | |
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| Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Fricatives | |
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| Turbulence | |
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| Place of Articulation in Fricatives | |
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| Quantal Theory and Fricatives | |
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| Fricative Auditory Spectra | |
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| Dimensions of Fricative Perception | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Stops and Affricates | |
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| Source Functions For Stops and Affricates | |
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| Phonation types | |
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| Sound sources in stops and affricates | |
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| Vocal Tract Filter Functions in Stops | |
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| Affricates | |
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| Auditory Properties of Stops | |
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| Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Nasals and Laterals | |
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| Bandwidth | |
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| Nasal Stops | |
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| Laterals | |
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| Nasalization | |
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| Nasal Consonant Perception | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Answers to Selected Short-answer Questions | |
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| Index | |