Examining talker effects in the perception of native- and foreign-accented speech

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 824-830

  McLennan, Conor T ^a   González, Julio ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Priming; Speech perception; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 84862668650     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0315-y     Document Type: Article

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