Plasticity in vowel perception and production: A study of accent change in young adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3814-3826

  Evans, Bronwen G ^a   Iverson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; STUDENTS; TEXT PROCESSING;

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; UNIVERSITIES; VOWEL PERCEPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 34249880800     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722209     Document Type: Article

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