Listening with an accent: Speech perception in a second language by late bilinguals

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 447-457

  Leikin, Mark ^a   Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a   Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Sapir, Shimon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accent; Arabic; Bilingualism; Hebrew; Russian; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350336756     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9099-1     Document Type: Article

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