Identification and discrimination of bilingual talkers across languages

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4524-4538

  Winters, Stephen J ^a,b   Levi, Susannah V ^a,c   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(PL) PROPERTIES; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); LANGUAGES (TRADITIONAL); SPEECH SIGNALS;

EXPERIMENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES; RADIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE;

EID: 44949255350     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2913046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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