Individual variability in cue-weighting and lexical tone learning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 456-465

  Chandrasekaran, Bharath ^a   Sampath, Padma D ^a   Wong, Patrick C M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; BEFORE AND AFTER; COGNITIVE TESTS; CUE WEIGHTING; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; LEXICAL CONTEXTS; LEXICAL TONES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; NON-NATIVE; PATTERN DISCRIMINATION; PITCH CONTOURS; PRE-TRAINING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH SOUNDS; TWO-DIMENSION;

LINGUISTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955226157     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3445785     Document Type: Article

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