The influence of talker and foreign-accent variability on spoken word identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1677-1686

  Bent, Tessa ^a   Frush Holt, Rachael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN ACCENTS; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; SPEAKING RATE; SPOKEN WORDS; WORD IDENTIFICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EXPERIMENTS;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874818733     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4776212     Document Type: Article

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