Perceived accentedness and intelligibility: The relative contributions of F0 and duration

Speech Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 486-507

  Winters, Stephen ^a   O'Brien, Mary Grantham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Intelligibility; Perception; Prosody; Second language

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN ACCENTS; NON-NATIVE; PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING; PROSODY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SECOND LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84875474077     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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