Lexically guided phonetic retuning of foreign-accented speech and its generalization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 539-555

  Reinisch, Eva ^a   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Lexically guided phonetic category retuning; Perceptual learning; Speaker generalization; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897947310     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034409     Document Type: Article

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