Consonant identification in consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in speech-spectrum noise.

@article{Woods2010ConsonantII,
  title={Consonant identification in consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in speech-spectrum noise.},
  author={David L. Woods and E. William Yund and Timothy J. Herron and Matthew A.I. Ua Cruadhlaoich},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={2010},
  volume={127 3},
  pages={
          1609-23
        }
}
Identification functions of 20 initial and 20 final consonants were characterized in 9600 randomly sampled consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) tokens presented in speech-spectrum noise. Because of differences in the response criteria for different consonants, signal detection measures were used to quantify identifiability. Consonant-specific baseline signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) were adjusted to produce a d(') of 2.20 for each consonant. Consonant identification was measured at baseline SNRs (B… 
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