The assimilation of L2 Australian English vowels to L1 Japanese vowel categories: Vocabulary size matters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1177-

  Bundgaard Nielsen, Rikke L ^a   Best, Catherine T ^a,b   Tyler, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian; Japanese; Perception; Vowel

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN; ENGLISH VOWELS; GOODNESS OF FIT; JAPANESE; JAPANESE VOWELS; NON-NATIVE; PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY SIZE; VOWEL;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84867220202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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