THE EFFECT OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ON FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTY

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Tyler, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; CONDITION; DUAL-TASKS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH SIGNALS; VERIFICATION TASK;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84952708878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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