Dental-to-velar perceptual assimilation: A cross-linguistic study of the perception of dental stop+/l/ clusters

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2899-2914

  Hallé, Pierre A ^a,b,c   Best, Catherine T ^c,d  

^a Laboratoire de Phonetique et de Phonologie   (France)

^b Lab Cognition et Developpement   (France)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HEBREW LISTENERS; LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC; PHONETIC BIASES; PHONOTACTIC PERCEPTUAL;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRANCE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH; VOICE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34247886043     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2534656     Document Type: Article

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