Language-independent processing in speech perception: Identification of English intervocalic consonants by speakers of eight European languages

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 954-967

  Cooke, Martin ^a,b   Lecumberri, Maria Luisa Garcia ^b   Scharenborg, Odette ^c   Van Dommelen, Wim A ^d  

^a BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consonant identification; Cross language; Noise; Non native

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; CROSS-LANGUAGE; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; LISTENING-IN; MASKING EFFECT; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NOISE; NOISE TYPES; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649330825     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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