An investigation of current models of second language speech perception: The case of Japanese adults' perception of English consonants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2711-2724

  Guion, Susan G ^a   Flege, James E ^b   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^c   Pruitt, Jesica C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; THEORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034075987     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428657     Document Type: Article

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