Ability in perceiving nonnative contrasts: Performance on natural and synthetic speech stimuli

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 746-758

  Gordon, Peter C ^a   Keyes, Lisa ^a   Yung, Yiu Fai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035349362     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194435     Document Type: Article

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