Listeners retune phoneme categories across languages

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-86

  Reinisch, Eva ^a,c   Weber, Andrea ^b   Mitterer, Holger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Perceptual learning; Second language listening; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870952789     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027979     Document Type: Article

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