Perceptual development of phoneme contrasts: How sensitivity changes along acoustic dimensions that contrast phoneme categories

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2291-2302

  Heeren, W F L ^a,b   Schouten, M E H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; LAW ENFORCEMENT;

CONTROL GROUP; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SENSITIVITY CHANGES; SPEECH SOUNDS;

LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949121172     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967472     Document Type: Article

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