Listening effort and accented speech

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Van Engen, Kristin J ^a   Peelle, Jonathan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent; Listening effort; Speech comprehension; Speech perception; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ACCENTED SPEECH; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FACILITATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LISTENING EFFORT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84905577432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00577     Document Type: Article

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