Language experience and consonantal context effects on perceptual assimilation of French vowels by American-English learners of French

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1138-1152

  Levy, Erika S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS; AMERICAN ENGLISH; CONTEXT EFFECTS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCIES; LANGUAGE LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849099420     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050256     Document Type: Article

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