Speaker-independent factors affecting the perception of foreign accent in a second language

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2327-2338

  Levi, Susannah V ^a   Winters, Stephen J ^a,b   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FOREIGN-ACCENTED SPEECH; LEXICAL FREQUENCIES; ORTHOGRAPHY; SPEAKER-DEPENDENT FACTORS; SPEECH ARTICULATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TARGET VARIABLE;

CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34047261418     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2537345     Document Type: Article

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