Perception of coarticulatory nasalization by speakers of English and Thai: Evidence for partial compensation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2868-2887

  Beddor, Patrice Speeter ^a   Krakow, Rena Arens ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

EID: 0032744759     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428111     Document Type: Article

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