Influences of phonetic identification and category goodness on American listeners' perception of /r/ and /l/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1130-1140

  Iverson, Paul ^a   Kuhl, Patricia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030045339     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415234     Document Type: Article

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