The listener: No longer the silent partner in reduced intelligibility

System

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-84

  Zielinski, Beth W ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

EFL ESL; Foreign accent; Intelligibility; Listening; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 39849091609     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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