Native Italian speakers' perception and production of English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2973-2987

  Flege, James Emil ^a   MacKay, Ian R A ^b   Meador, Diane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Speech and Lang Sci Res Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032739291     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428116     Document Type: Article

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