The effect of listener accent background on accent perception and comprehension

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ikeno, Ayako ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

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EID: 36949014554     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/76030     Document Type: Article

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