Evidence against the mismatched interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit hypothesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 433-442

  Stibbard, Richard M ^a,b   Lee, Jeong In ^a  

^a University of Surrey ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOW-PROFICIENCY TALKER; MISMATCHED INTERLANGUAGE; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUDIO RECORDING; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREAN; LANGUAGE; NEGRO; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33745753108     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2203595     Document Type: Article

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