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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Noble Stevens was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of health sciences and technology at the research laboratory of electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the speech communication group in MIT's research laboratory of electronics , and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics.

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Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age. (1992) (1987)
Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence materials with controlled word predictability. (1977) (1125)
On the quantal nature of speech (1972) (872)
Emotions and speech: some acoustical correlates. (1972) (817)
Invariant cues for place of articulation in stop consonants. (1978) (617)
Toward a model for lexical access based on acoustic landmarks and distinctive features. (2002) (541)
Acoustic invariance in speech production: evidence from measurements of the spectral characteristics of stop consonants. (1979) (444)
Perturbation of vowel articulations by consonantal context: an acoustical study. (1963) (346)
Role of formant transitions in the voiced-voiceless distinction for stops. (1974) (338)
Development of a Quantitative Description of Vowel Articulation (1955) (327)
Primary Features and Their Enhancement in Consonants (1989) (312)
A Note on Laryngeal Features (2003) (290)
On the Properties of Voiceless Fricative Consonants (1961) (272)
Physics of Laryngeal Behavior and Larynx Modes (1977) (255)
Speech recognition: A model and a program for research (1962) (255)
Airflow and Turbulence Noise for Fricative and Stop Consonants: Static Considerations (1971) (234)
Analog studies of the nasalization of vowels. (1956) (226)
Perceptual invariance and onset spectra for stop consonants in different vowel environments. (1980) (219)
Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of voicing in fricatives and fricative clusters. (1992) (192)
Enhancement and Overlap in the Speech Chain (2006) (170)
Acoustic correlates of some phonetic categories. (1979) (159)
Acoustic and perceptual correlates of the non-nasal--nasal distinction for vowels. (1985) (152)
Quantal theory, enhancement and overlap (2010) (144)
Reduction of Speech Spectra by Analysis‐by‐Synthesis Techniques (1961) (132)
Development and testing of a portable vocal accumulator. (2003) (131)
Towards models of phonation (2001) (131)
Crosslanguage Study of Vowel Perception (1969) (129)
Classification of glottal vibration from acoustic measurements (1995) (124)
Perceptual invariance and onset spectra for stop consonants in different vowel environments (1976) (122)
Toward a Model for Speech Recognition (1960) (117)
An acoustical theory of vowel production and some of its implications. (1961) (114)
A model of acoustic transmission in the respiratory system (1989) (110)
Glottal characteristics of female speakers (1995) (106)
Speaker authentication and identification: a comparison of spectrographic and auditory presentations of speech material. (1968) (94)
Evidence for the role of acoustic boundaries in the perception of speech sounds (1981) (90)
An Electrical Analog of the Vocal Tract (1953) (90)
The Potential Role of Property Detectors in the Perception of Consonants (1975) (90)
Quantal Aspects of Consonant Production and Perception: A Study of Retroflex Stop Consonants. (1975) (87)
Effect of burst amplitude on the perception of stop consonant place of articulation. (1983) (84)
Acoustical description of syllabic nuclei: an interpretation in terms of a dynamic model of articulation. (1966) (83)
A quasiarticulatory approach to controlling acoustic source parameters in a Klatt-type formant synthesizer using HLsyn. (2002) (83)
A miniature accelerometer for detecting glottal waveforms and nasalization. (1975) (80)
STUDIES OF ARTICULATORY ACTIVITY AND AIRFLOW DURING SPEECH * (1968) (78)
Phonetic features and acoustic invariance in speech (1981) (76)
Implementation of a model for lexical access based on features (1992) (75)
Speaker identification by speech spectrograms: a scientists' view of its reliability for legal purposes. (1970) (74)
Feature geometry and the vocal tract (1994) (71)
Effects of a vocal-tract constriction on the glottal source: experimental and modelling studies (1986) (70)
Constraints among param-eters simplify control of Klatt formant synthesizer (1991) (69)
PRESSURE‐FLOW EVENTS DURING SINGING (1968) (68)
Assessment of nasalization in the speech of deaf children. (1976) (66)
Computer-aided speech training for the deaf. (1976) (65)
Property detectors for bursts and transitions in speech perception. (1975) (63)
Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks (2000) (62)
Perception of Sounds Characterized by a Rapidly Changing Resonant Frequency (1961) (60)
Sources of Inter- and Intra-Speaker Variability in the Acoustic Properties of Speech Sounds (1972) (57)
Constraints Imposed by the Auditory System on the Properties Used to Classify Speech Sounds: Data from Phonology, Acoustics, and Psychoacoustics (1981) (57)
Spectral characteristics of sound transmission in the human respiratory system (1990) (54)
Features in Speech Perception and Lexical Access (2008) (54)
High-frequency audiometric assessment of a young adult population. (1987) (53)
Teaching speech to the deaf:Can a computer help? (1973) (53)
Studies of Formant Transitions Using a Vocal Tract Analog (1956) (48)
Tongue surface displacement during bilabial stops. (1997) (47)
On the Derivation of Area Functions and Acoustic Spectra from Cinéradiographic Films of Speech (1964) (47)
On the automatic recognition of continuous speech:Implications from a spectrogram-reading experiment (1973) (47)
Estimation of formant band widths from measurements of transient response of the vocal tract. (1958) (45)
Models for the production and acoustics of stop consonants (1993) (44)
Diverse Acoustic Cues at Consonantal Landmarks (2000) (43)
Knowledge of language and the sounds of speech (1991) (41)
Some Acoustical and Perceptual Correlates of Nasal Vowels (1987) (40)
Calibration of ear canals for audiometry at high frequencies. (1987) (38)
On the DL for Frequency (1953) (38)
Identification of a speaker by speech spectrograms. (1969) (37)
Studies of vowel and consonant reduction (1992) (35)
A Community's Reaction to Noise: Can It Be Forecast? (1955) (35)
Vocal fold physiology (1981) (34)
Introductory network theory (1965) (33)
Reaction Time to Synthetic Stop Consonants and Vowels at Phoneme Centers and at Phoneme Boundaries (1963) (33)
REVISITING PLACE OF ARTICULATION MEASURES FOR STOP CONSONANTS : IMPLICATIONS FOR MODELS OF CONSONANT PRODUCTION (1999) (33)
Design Features of Speech Sound Systems (1983) (33)
On an Unusual Mode of Chanting by Certain Tibetan Lamas (1967) (32)
Articulatory and acoustic correlates of the [s‐š] distinction (1979) (32)
Applying phonetic knowledge to lexical access (1995) (29)
An acoustical study of the fricative /s/ in the speech of individuals with dysarthria. (2001) (29)
Modelling affricate consonants (1993) (28)
Modes of vocal fold vibration based on a two section model (1988) (27)
Letter: Speaker identification by speech spectrograms; some further observations. (1973) (26)
The postalveolar fricatives of Polish (1997) (26)
VOWEL NASALIZATION IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY DUE TO PHONETIC CONTEXT (2007) (26)
Mechanism of Glottal Vibration for Vowels and Consonants (1967) (24)
Autocorrelation Analysis of Speech Sounds (1950) (23)
A phonetic analysis of prenasalized stops in Moru (1992) (23)
ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES USED FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS a (1983) (22)
Development and perceptual evaluation of amplitude-based F0 control in electrolarynx speech. (2009) (21)
HANDBOOK OF ACOUSTIC NOISE CONTROL. VOLUME II. NOISE AND MAN (1953) (20)
Perception of vowel nasalization in VC contexts: A cross‐language study (1987) (20)
Teaching speech to the deaf: can a computer help (1972) (20)
The Chiba and Kajiyama Book as a Precursor to the Acoustic Theory of Speech Production( Sixtieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Vowel, Its Nature and Structure by Chiba and Kajiyama) (2001) (19)
Identification and Discrimination of Rounded and Unrounded Vowels (1963) (19)
On the learning of speechlike vocabularies (1962) (18)
Effect of Duration upon Vowel Identification (1959) (16)
Spectral prominences and phonetic distinctions in language (1985) (15)
Erratum: "Airflow and Turbulence Noise for Fricative and Stop Consonants: Static Considerations" [K. N. Stevens, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 50, 1180 1192 (1971)] (1972) (14)
INVARIANCE AND VARIABILITY IN SPEECH: INTERPRETING ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE (2004) (13)
Articulatory–Acoustic Relations as the Basis of Distinctive Contrasts (2010) (13)
Frequency Discrimination for Damped Waves (1952) (12)
Judgments of the acceptability of aircraft noise in the presence of speech (1969) (12)
Speaking rate , voice-onset time , and quantity : The search for higher-order invariants for two Icelandic speech cues (2002) (12)
A Framework for Synthesis of Segments Based on Pseudoarticulatory Parameters (1997) (11)
Understanding variability in speech: A requisite for advances in speech synthesis and recognition (1996) (11)
Perceptual and acoustic impacts of aberrant properties of electrolaryngeal speech (2003) (11)
Mechanisms of stop‐consonant release for different places of articulation (1980) (9)
Development of rules for controlling the HLsyn speech synthesizer (1999) (9)
Procedures for Estimating Noise Exposure and Resulting Community Reaction from Air Base Operations (1957) (9)
Critique: articulatory-acoustic relations and their role in speech perception. (1996) (9)
Crosslinguistic Study of Vowel Discrimination (1964) (9)
Contents Vol. 57, 2000 (2000) (8)
EMOTION AND SPEECH: SOME ACOUSTICAL FACTORS (1972) (8)
Context‐independent properties for place of articulation in stop consonants (1976) (8)
A nineteen-channel filter bank spectrum analyzer for a speech recognition system (1967) (8)
Computer‐aided speech evaluation and speech training for the deaf (1974) (8)
Test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentences with controlled word predictability (1976) (7)
Synthesis of Speech by Electrical Analog Devices (1956) (7)
Multisensor speech input for enhanced immunity to acoustic background noise (1984) (7)
Auditory Testing of a Simplified Description of Vowel Articulation (1955) (7)
Electrical Synthesizer of Continuous Speech (1955) (7)
Further Theoretical and Experimental Bases for Quantal Places of Articulation for Consonants (1973) (7)
Theory of Vocal‐Cord Vibration and Its Relation to Laryngeal Features (1974) (7)
A LANDMARK-BASED MODEL OF SPEECH PERCEPTION: HISTORY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS (2004) (7)
Cinéradiographic Studies of Speech: Procedures and Objectives (1963) (7)
Towards synthesis of Hindi consonants using KLSYN88 (1992) (7)
Attributes of lateral consonants (1994) (6)
Contributions of the study of disordered speech to speech production models (2000) (6)
Reaction Time during the Discrimination of Synthetic Stop Consonants (1964) (6)
Acoustic invariance for place of articulation in stops and nasals across syllabic contexts (1977) (6)
The acoustic/articulatory interface (2005) (6)
A cross‐language study of the perception of nasal vowels (1983) (6)
Detectability of Small Irregularities in a Broad‐Band Noise Spectrum (1959) (6)
Automatic Reduction of Vowel Spectra: An Analysis‐by‐Synthesis Method and Its Evaluation (1964) (6)
Strategies for Recognition of Spoken Sentences from Visual Examination of Spectrograms (1971) (5)
Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Some factors influencing the precision required for articulatory targets: comments on Keating's paper (1990) (5)
Toward formant synthesis with articulatory controls (2002) (5)
Multisensor speech input (1983) (5)
New parameters and mapping relations for the HLsyn speech synthesizer (1997) (5)
Acoustic properties of /h/ (1989) (5)
On some issues in the pursuit of acoustic invariance in speech: a reply to Lisker. (1985) (5)
Unique Vocal Abilities of Certain Tibetan Lamas1 (1967) (5)
Ear‐canal resonances and the assessment of hearing thresholds at high frequencies (1982) (5)
Phonetic Features and Lexical Access (1996) (5)
Modeling stop‐consonant releases for synthesis (2000) (4)
The Perception of Vowel Formants (1952) (4)
Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of 2-3-year-olds learning American English (2011) (4)
Evidence for Quantal Vowel Articulations (1969) (4)
Development of subglottal quantal effects in young children. (2008) (4)
The Role of Format Transitions in the Voice‐Voiceless Distinction for Stops (1971) (4)
STUDY OF ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF SPEECH SOUNDS (1968) (4)
Inventory of phonetic contrasts generated by high-level control of a formant synthesizer (1992) (4)
Labeling a speech database with landmarks and features (1997) (4)
The nature of aspiration in stop consonants in English (2006) (4)
Speaker Identification by a Matching‐from‐Sample Technique (1965) (3)
Automatic Resolution of Speech Spectra into Elemental Spectra (1959) (3)
Acoustic articulatory evidence for quantal vowel categories: The feature [low] (2007) (3)
RELATIONAL PROPERTIES AS PERCEPTUAL CORRELATES OF PHONETIC FEATURES (2019) (3)
The Use of Miniature Accelerometer for Detecting Glottal Waveforms and Nasality. (1974) (3)
Quantal configurations for vowels (1975) (3)
Invariant acoustic correlates of phonetic features and their potential role in speech perception (1981) (3)
Dynamic Analog of the Vocal Tract (1956) (3)
Tongue surface deformation during obstruent stop consonants (1992) (3)
Apparatus for and method of performing high frequency audiometry (1992) (3)
Recognition of continuous speech requires top-down processing (2000) (3)
Effect of burst amplitude on the perception of place of articulation for stops (1981) (3)
Models of Speech Production (2007) (3)
FORMANT TRANSITIONS : TEASING APART CONSONANT AND VOWEL CONTRIBUTIONS (2019) (2)
Defining and enhancing attributes for features (2006) (2)
Some parameters affecting the perception of voicing for fricatives (1988) (2)
Use of a Visual Display of Nasalization to Facilitate Training of Velar Control for Deaf Speakers. Report No. 2899. (1974) (2)
Toward models for human production and perception of speech (1998) (2)
Control of a klatt synthesizer by articulatory parameters (1994) (2)
Analysis of acoustic factors contributing to poor quality of electrolaryngeal speech (2001) (2)
Simplified Nonsense‐Syllable Tests for Analytic Evaluation of Speech Transmission Systems (1962) (2)
10 Acoustic Characteristics of Speech Sounds Acoustic Characteristics of Speech Sounds (2)
Interactive Voice Technology: Variations in the Vocal Utterances of Speakers Performing a Stress-Inducing Task, (1983) (2)
Higher-level control parameters for a formant synthesizer (1990) (2)
Speech , Music and Hearing Quarterly Progress and Status Report The formant patterns of fricative consonants (2007) (2)
A Survey of Background and Aircraft Noise in Communities near Airports (1954) (2)
Publications Björn Lindblom (2000) (2)
Synthesis of manner and voicing continua based on speech production models (1991) (2)
Acoustic and perceptual correlates of nasal vowels (1982) (2)
Automatic Measurement of the Formants of Vowels in Diverse Consonantal Environments (1960) (2)
Analysis by synthesis of electrolarynx speech (2005) (2)
Hearing thresholds at high frequencies: Results obtained using a new measurement technique (1985) (2)
Perception of Two‐Component Noise Bursts (1962) (2)
Aerodynamic and Acoustic Events at the Release of Stop and Fricative Consonants (1971) (2)
Noise at the glottis during speech production (1990) (2)
1 QUANTAL THEORY , ENHANCEMENT AND OVERLAP (2)
Control of Klatt speech synthesizer with high‐level parameters. (1992) (2)
A computer-based system of speech-training aids for the deaf: a progress report (1974) (1)
Representation of Speech Signals in Terms of Articulatory Positions (1953) (1)
Development of a technique for high frequency audiometry (1983) (1)
Retrieving distinctive features and segments from variable acoustic cues (2000) (1)
Research on Speaker Verification (1971) (1)
A theoretical model of sound transmission in the thorax (1989) (1)
Air‐Flow Measurement during the Production of Speech Sounds (1966) (1)
Study of Acoustic Properties of Speech Sounds II, and Some Remarks on the Use of Acoustic Data in Schemes for Machine Recognition of Speech (1970) (1)
Formant Tracking by Computer (1959) (1)
SYMPOSIUM 3: Models of the Larynx (1984) (1)
A framework for synthesis of segments based on articulatory parameters (1994) (1)
Automatic Speaker Verification: A Review (1976) (1)
Modeling study of influences of vocal‐tract configurations on glottal behavior (1985) (1)
Place of articulation for consonants: Comparing nasals and stops, and syllable position (1999) (1)
Noise Produced on the Ground by Jet Aircraft in Flight (1956) (1)
Analysis of Vowels Produced by Spanish and English Speakers (1969) (1)
Implications for the hearing impaired of computer‐related research in human communication (1977) (1)
Acoustic Correlates of Place of Articulation for Constants (1968) (1)
Apparatus for the Generation of Psycho‐Acoustic Stimuli Varying in Complexity from Noise Bursts to Syllables (1959) (1)
Synthesis of consonant sequences using a Klatt synthesizer with higher‐level control (1994) (1)
Perceptual basis for the compact‐diffuse distinction for consonants (1986) (1)
Speech production: Thirty years after (1993) (1)
Neighborhood Reaction to Noise: A Survey and Correlation of Case Histories (1953) (1)
Gestural overlap of stop‐consonant sequences: Evidence from analysis and synthesis (2003) (1)
Onset spectra as cues for consonantal place of articulation (1977) (1)
Multilevel approach to rule‐based speech synthesis using quasiarticulatory parameters (1996) (1)
ACOUSTICAL DESCRIPTION OF SYLLABIC NUCLEI: DATA DERIVED BY AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS PROCEDURES, (1963) (1)
Acoustic properties contributing to the classification of place of articulation for stops. (1992) (0)
Release mechanisms for stop and nasal consonants (1988) (0)
The utterances we selected include several isolated vowels, a number of brief utterances (1984) (0)
Educational issues in speech communication. (1992) (0)
The perils of teaching speech acoustics. (1992) (0)
On the Automatic ecognition of ontinuous Speech: mplications from a trogram-Reading riment (1973) (0)
Effect of Intensity Duration and Spectrum on the Perception of Two‐Element Auditory Sequences (1958) (0)
Index autorum Vol. 57, 2000 (2000) (0)
Klatt, Dennis H. (1938–1988)* (2006) (0)
F0 control in electrolarynx speech. (2008) (0)
Noise Exposure in Communities Near Jet Air Bases (1958) (0)
Analysis of speech sounds transduced by different types and positions of sensors (1983) (0)
Evaluation of Various Analysis‐Synthesis Speech Systems (1963) (0)
Method of speech representation and synthesis using a set of high level constrained parameters (1998) (0)
Experimental Studies of Noise Intrusion into the Community Areas from Aircraft Flight Operations (1958) (0)
Constraints and Strategies in Speech Production (2007) (0)
Studies of Articulatory Activity during Speech Production (1966) (0)
Klatt, Dennis H. • 1938–1988 (1989) (0)
Acoustical Analysis of Speech (1958) (0)
Development of Computerized Speech-Training Aids for the Deaf. Report No. 2914. Final Report. (1974) (0)
Chairman’s Summary (1986) (0)
Analysis of Glide Consonants (1964) (0)
6.542J / 24.966J / HST.712J Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, Fall 2001 (2001) (0)
One‐hand control of a speech synthesizer (2004) (0)
GUIDE FOR THE ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION OF AIR BASE NOISE PROBLEMS (1961) (0)
Experimental assessment of a method for calibration of ear canals at high frequencies (1988) (0)
Models for voicing and aspiration in stop consonants (1991) (0)
Obituary for Dennis Klatt (1989) (0)
On the Production and Perception of Fricative Consonants (1958) (0)
Studies of Speech Analysis and Synthesis. (1976) (0)
Difference Limens for Complex Frequencies (1951) (0)
On the Shielding of Noise Outdoors (1954) (0)
Studies of Acoustics and Perception of Speech Sounds (2009) (0)
Noise and Man, Volume II of Handbook on Acoustic Noise Control (1959) (0)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS OX ACOUSTICS , SPEECH , AND SIGNAL PROCXSSING (2002) (0)
Some phrase‐level influences on the glottal waveform (1995) (0)
Production of Consonants with Synthesize (2003) (0)
A procedure for calibrating ear canals at high frequencies (1984) (0)
Glottal characteristics of children—acoustic measures and comparison with adults (2000) (0)
Diagnosis of narrowing in arteriosclerosis (1980) (0)
The influence of Peter Ladefoged (2005) (0)
Theoretical Aspects of Speech Production. (1992) (0)
Voicing distinction for fricatives: Acoustic theory and measurements (1987) (0)
Toward a feature-based model of speech perception (1982) (0)
Automatic detection of landmark for nasal consonants from speech waveform (1998) (0)
Schouten, Jan Frederik ⋅ 1910–1980 (1981) (0)
Inferring articulatory movements from acoustic data (1993) (0)
Analysis of factors affecting vocal fold impact stress using a mechanical model (2001) (0)
Acoustic Patterning of Speech Its Linguistic and Physiological Bases (2000) (0)
Acoustics and synthesis of fricative consonants (1989) (0)
Speech communication within the Acoustical Society of America (2000) (0)
Pitch Discrimination Data from Two Psychophysical Methods (1952) (0)
Turbulence noise sources in the vocal tract (1986) (0)
Comments on “The Relations of Hearing Loss to Noise Exposure,” DR Criteria, etc. (1956) (0)
On the Acceptability of Aircraft Noise Heard in the Presence of Speech (1967) (0)
Burst intensity and position in the perception of voiced stop consonants (1976) (0)
Chairman's Review (1975) (0)
Fifty years of progress in acoustic phonetics (2004) (0)
Teaching about turbulence noise sources in the vocal tract (1992) (0)
Physical principles behind quantal relations. (2008) (0)
Amelioration of Deafness (1972) (0)
Acoustics and its relation to language: The influence of Dick Bolt (2003) (0)
Acoustic Feature Analysis of Several Arabic Consonants (1969) (0)
Enhancement of distinctiveness in strident fricatives: An example from Mandarin Chinese (2003) (0)

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