The relationship between native allophonic experience with vowel duration and perception of the English tense/lax vowel contrast by Spanish and Russian listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3959-3971

  Kondaurova, Maria V ^a   Francis, Alexander L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; NATIVE LANGUAGES; NON NATIVES; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049100721     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2999341     Document Type: Article

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