A perceptual phonetic similarity space for languages: Evidence from five native language listener groups

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 930-942

  Bradlow, Ann ^a   Clopper, Cynthia ^b   Smiljanic, Rajka ^c   Walter, Mary Ann ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cross language speech intelligibility; Language classification; Phonetic similarity

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CROSS-LANGUAGE SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; FOUR-GROUP; LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING ANALYSIS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE; PERCEPTUAL SIMILARITY; PHONETIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MATRIX; SPACE-BASED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TURKISHS;

EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 78649317244     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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