Effects of noise and proficiency on intelligibility of Chinese-accented English

Language and Speech

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-154

  Rogers, Catherine L ^a   Dalby, Jonathan ^b   Nishi, Kanae ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Foreign accent; Speech intelligibility; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044281560     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309040470020201     Document Type: Article

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