Learning a novel phonological contrast depends on interactions between individual differences and training paradigm design

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 461-472

  Perrachione, Tyler K ^a   Lee, Jiyeon ^b   Ha, Louisa Y Y ^b   Wong, Patrick C M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED LEARNING; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LITTLE RESEARCH; PRE-TRAINING; SPEECH TRAINING; TARGET FEATURE; TRAINING DESIGN; WEAK LEARNER;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

DESIGN;

ACHIEVEMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHONETICS; SPEECH; TIME;

ACHIEVEMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; COGNITION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960696562     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3593366     Document Type: Article

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