Patterns of English phoneme confusions by native and non-native listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3668-3678

  Cutler, Anne ^a   Weber, Andrea ^b   Smits, Roel ^a   Cooper, Nicole ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONSONANT; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; PHONEME IDENTIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 11144351041     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1810292     Document Type: Article

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