The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for native speakers of Mandarin: Production and perception of English word-final voicing contrasts

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 664-679

  Hayes Harb, Rachel ^a   Smith, Bruce L ^a   Bent, Tessa ^b   Bradlow, Ann R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 54149084733     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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