The influence of non-native language proficiency on speech perception performance

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Kilman, Lisa ^a,b   Zekveld, Adriana ^a,b,c   Hällgren, Mathias ^b,d   Rönnberg, Jerker ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b The Swedish Institute for Disability Research Linköping University   (Sweden)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Energetic masking; English proficiency; Informational masking; Native; Non native; Speech perception; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904891513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00651     Document Type: Article

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