The weckud wetch of the wast: Lexical adaptation to a novel accent

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 543-562

  Maye, Jessica ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent; Dialect; Perceptual adaptation; Speech perception; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949091866     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802035357     Document Type: Article

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