Language, context, and speaker effects in the identification and discrimination of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese and Korean listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1161-1174

  Ingram, John C L ^a   Park, See Gyoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031887722     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421225     Document Type: Article

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