Native language affects rhythmic grouping of speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3828-3843

  Bhatara, Anjali ^a,c   Boll Avetisyan, Natalie ^b   Unger, Annika ^b   Nazzi, Thierry ^a,c   Höhle, Barbara ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SPEECH SOUNDS;

LINGUISTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887441702     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4823848     Document Type: Article

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