Listeners' cognitive and affective reactions to English speakers with standard American English and asian accents

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 307-326

  Hosoda, Megumi ^a   Stone Romero, Eugene F ^b   Walter, Jennifer N ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 34247550699     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.104.1.307-326     Document Type: Article

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