Effects of acoustic variability in the perceptual learning of non-native-accented speech sounds

Phonetica

Volumn 64, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 122-144

  Wade, Travis ^a,b   Jongman, Allard ^a   Sereno, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34948888834     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107913     Document Type: Article

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