Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3649-3658

  Wang, Yue ^a   Spence, Michelle M ^a   Jongman, Allard ^b   Sereno, Joan A ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TRAINING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEACHING;

EID: 0032794480     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428217     Document Type: Article

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