The effect of language immersion education on the preattentive perception of native and non-native vowel contrasts

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-23

  Peltola, Maija S ^a   Tuomainen, Outi ^a   Koskinen, Mira ^a   Aaltonen, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Even related potentials; Language learning; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33847295738     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-006-9030-y     Document Type: Article

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