Cross-language differences in cue use for speech segmentation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 367-376

  Tyler, Michael D ^a   Cutler, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE POSITION; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITY;

EXPERIMENTS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH THERAPY; VOWEL;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149087406     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3129127     Document Type: Article

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