Regional and foreign accent processing in English: Can listeners adapt?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-412

  Floccia, Caroline ^a   Butler, Joseph ^a   Goslin, Jeremy ^a   Ellis, Lucy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARJON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accents; Adaptation; Lexical decision; Participants' expectations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649196953     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9097-8     Document Type: Article

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