Limitations on adaptation to foreign accents

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 349-367

  Trude, Alison M ^a   Tremblay, Annie ^b   Brown Schmidt, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Eye tracking; Foreign accent; Perception; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881115350     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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