Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German, and Spanish listeners

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 452-465

  Escudero, Paola ^a   Benders, Titia ^a   Lipski, Silvia C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 70350185393     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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