Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Mitterer, Holger ^a   McQueen, James M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AUSTRALIA; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; READING; SPEECH; UNITED KINGDOM;

AUSTRALIA; COMPREHENSION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SCOTLAND; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70450191408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007785     Document Type: Article

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