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Is useful speech information carried by fibers with high characteristic frequencies?

E A Strickland1, N F Viemeister, D J Van Tasell

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|January 1, 1994
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