Consonant identification in noise by native and non-native listeners: Effects of local context

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1264-1268

  Cutler, Anne ^a,b   Garcia Lecumberri, Maria Luisa ^c   Cooke, Martin ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; EQUIVALENT NOISE; NOISE EFFECTS; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; SPANISH; TASK FACTORS;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 49249131199     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2946707     Document Type: Article

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