Role of word-external contexts in native speakers' identification of vowel length in Japanese

Phonetica

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 177-200

  Hirata, Yukari ^a   Lambacher, Stephen G ^b  

^a Colgate University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 18544375310     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084157     Document Type: Article

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