The effects of speaker accent and target predictability on perception of mispronunciations

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-64

  Schmid, Peggy M ^a   Yeni Komshian, Grace H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accented speech; Listening for mispronunciation task; Sentence perception; Speech perception; Target predictability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONEME; PREDICTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032902339     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4201.56     Document Type: Article

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