Predicting foreign-accent adaptation in older adults

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1563-1585

  Janse, Esther ^a,b   Adank, Patti ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Audiovisual information; Individual differences; Perceptual adaptation; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84864692618     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.658822     Document Type: Article

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