Individual differences in phonetic cue use in production and perception of a non-native sound contrast

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-204

  Schertz, Jessamyn ^a   Cho, Taehong ^b   Lotto, Andrew ^c   Warner, Natasha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Korean; L2; Phonetic cue weighting; Stop voicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939430548     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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