Cross-language categorization of French and German vowels by nave American listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1461-1476

  Strange, Winifred ^a   Levy, Erika S ^b   Law, Franzo F ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; MULTIPLE TOKENS; NON-NATIVE; SELECTIVE PERCEPTION; SPEAKING STYLES; SPECTRAL SIMILARITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349132288     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3179666     Document Type: Article

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