The perception of phonemic contrasts in a non-native dialect

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Dufour, Sophie ^a   Nguyen, Noël ^b   Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH CODING;

HOMOPHONES; NON-NATIVE DIALECTS; PHONEMIC CONTRASTS; STANDARD FRENCH WORDS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FRANCE; HUMANS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34047251132     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2710742     Document Type: Article

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