Native and non-native listeners' perception of English consonants in different types of noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 980-995

  Broersma, Mirjam ^a,b   Scharenborg, Odette ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consonants; Identification; Noise; Non native Language; Speech Perception

Indexed keywords

CONSONANTS; IDENTIFICATION; NOISE; NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 78649327356     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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