Auditory enhancement and second language experience in Spanish and English weighting of secondary voicing cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2213-2224

  Llanos, Fernando ^a   Dmitrieva, Olga ^b   Shultz, Amanda ^a   Francis, Alexander L ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUE WEIGHTING; NON-NATIVE; SECOND LANGUAGE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOICING DECISION;

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883342045     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4817845     Document Type: Article

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