A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes

Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Iverson, Paul ^a   Kuhl, Patricia K ^b   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^c   Diesch, Eugen ^d   Tohkura, Yoh'ich ^e   Kettermann, Andreas ^f   Siebert, Claudia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Perceptual magnet effect; Phonetic perception

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

PERCEPTUAL INTERFERENCES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0037294626     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00198-1     Document Type: Article

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