Scaling foreign accent: Direct magnitude estimation versus interval scaling

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 335-349

  Southwood, M Helen ^a   Flege, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct magnitude estimation; Foreign accent; Interval scales; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DISPERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032772668     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026992099299013     Document Type: Article

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