A cross-language comparison of /d/-/o/perception: Evidence for a new developmental pattern

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2190-2201

  Polka, Linda ^a   Colantonio, Connie ^a   Sundara, Megha ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; ACOUSTIC NOISE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

LANGUAGE EFFECTS; NATIVES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035038924     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1362689     Document Type: Article

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