Speaker age and vowel perception

Language and Speech

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-121

  Drager, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

exemplar theory; sociophonetics; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953045729     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830910388017     Document Type: Article

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