Perception of familiar contrasts in unfamiliar positions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3890-3901

  Broersma, Mirjam ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NATIVE LANGUAGES; NON NATIVE PHONEME CONTRASTS; VOICELESS OBSTRUENTS; VOICING CONTRASTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCURACY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE; VOWEL;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 20444412676     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1906060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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