Age and understanding speakers with Spanish or Taiwanese accents

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Burda, Angela N ^a   Hageman, Carlin F ^a   Scherz, Julie A ^b   Edwards, Harold T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542645181     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.1.11     Document Type: Article

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