Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception: The Role of Temporal Information in French

Language and Speech

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 277-288

  Miller, Joanne L ^a   Grosjean, François ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dialect effects; Language specificity; Speech perception; Vowel duration; Vowel perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0345912327     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099704000304     Document Type: Article

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