Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: IV. Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2299-2310

  Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^b   Tohkura, Yoh'ichi ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030997289     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418276     Document Type: Article

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