Perception of final fricative voicing: Native and nonnative listeners' use of vowel duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1636-1644

  Broersma, Mirjam ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINAL VOICING; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; SECOND LANGUAGE; VOICED OBSTRUENTS; VOICING CONTRASTS; VOWEL LENGTH;

EXPERIMENTS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 77950398535     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3292996     Document Type: Article

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