Effect of listeners' linguistic background on perceptual judgements of hypernasality

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 487-498

  Lee, Alice ^a   Brown, Susanna ^b   Gibbon, Fiona E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Direct magnitude estimation; Hypernasality; Nasalance scores; Perceptual judgements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANTONESE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NASAL SPEECH; PHONATION; RELIABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH RATE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NOSE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51849146599     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820801890400     Document Type: Article

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