On the assimilation-discrimination relationship in American English adults? French vowel learning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2670-2682

  Levy, Erika S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS;

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; ERRORS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70449365200     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3224715     Document Type: Article

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