The effects of EMA-based augmented visual feedback on the English speakers' acquisition of the Japanese flap: A perceptual study

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1862-1865

  Levitt, June S ^a   Katz, William F ^b  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Flap; Japanese; L2; Non native; Training

Indexed keywords

FLAPS; KINEMATICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPEECH; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHY; JAPANESE; L2 SPEECH; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; TRAINING CONDITIONS; VISUAL FEEDBACK; L2; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH SOUNDS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; KINEMATICS;

EID: 79959828585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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