Phonetic, Phonemic, and Phonological Factors in Cross-Language Discrimination of Phonotactic Contrasts

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 270-282

  Davidson, Lisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Cross language speech perception; Discrimination; Phonology; Phonotactics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENGLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; RUSSIA; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951540720     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020988     Document Type: Article

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