First-language phonotactics in second-language listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 597-607

  Weber, Andrea ^a   Cutler, Anne ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BOUNDARY; GORKLECTURE; PHONOTACTICS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HEARING; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 30844455130     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2141003     Document Type: Article

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