Effects of language experience on pre-categorical perception: Distinguishing general from specialized processes in speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Iverson, Paul ^a   Wagner, Anita ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION; CROSS LANGUAGES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84966340313     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4944755     Document Type: Article

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