Talker-specific learning in speech perception

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 355-376

  Nygaard, Lynne C ^a   Pisoni, David B ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

HUMANS; LEARNING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0032044939     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206860     Document Type: Article

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