Non-native durational patterns decrease speech intelligibility

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 911-918

  Quené, Hugo ^a   Van Delft, L E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Duration patterns; Intelligibility; Non native speech; Segmental durations; Speech Reception Threshold

Indexed keywords

DURATION PATTERNS; INTELLIGIBILITY; NON-NATIVE; SEGMENTAL DURATIONS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 78649335736     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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