Talker-listener accent interactions in speech-in-noise recognition: Effects of prosodic manipulation as a function of language experience

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1357-1365

  Pinet, Melanie ^a   Iverson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCENTED SPEECH; ENGLISH SENTENCES; NOISE LEVELS; NON-NATIVE; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SEGMENT DURATION;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956400598     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3466857     Document Type: Article

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