Perceptual similarity of regional dialects of American English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 566-574

  Clopper, Cynthia G ^a,b   Levi, Susannah V ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGIONAL DIALECTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30844448781     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2141171     Document Type: Article

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