Language Universals and Misidentification: A Two-way Street

Language and Speech

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-330

  Berent, Iris ^a   Lennertz, Tracy ^a   Balaban, Evan ^b,c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

loanword adaptation; misperception; onset; sonority; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865252936     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830911417804     Document Type: Article

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