The contribution of prosody to the perception of foreign accent

Phonetica

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 247-267

  De Mareüil, Philippe Boula ^a   Vieru Dimulescu, Bianca ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIGRATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33847005044     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097308     Document Type: Article

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