The non-native consonant challenge for European languages

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1781-1784

  García Lecumberri, M Luisa ^a   Cooke, Martin ^b   Cutugno, Francesco ^c   Giurgiu, Mircea ^d   Meyer, Bernd T ^e   Scharenborg, Odette ^f   Van Dommelen, Wim ^g   Volin, Jan ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^h CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Masking; Noise; Non native; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT RECOGNITION; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; MASKING; NOISE; NON-NATIVE; SOUND IDENTIFICATION; SOUND SYSTEMS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867193846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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