Nonnative english speaker performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentences

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 792-804

  Rimikis, Stacey ^a   Smiljanic, Rajka ^b   Calandruccio, Lauren ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiology; Cultural; Linguistic diversity; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

AUDIOLOGY; CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879517964     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0178)     Document Type: Article

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