PLASTICITY OF NON-NATIVE PHONETIC PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION: A TRAINING STUDY

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Imaizumi, Satoshi ^a   Itoh, Hidemi ^b   Tamekawa, Yuji ^a   Deguchi, Toshisada ^c   Mori, Koichi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

MINIMAL WORDS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; NON-NATIVE; PERCEPTUAL TRAINING; PRE-TRAINING; SCALING ANALYSIS; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION; WORD-PAIRS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85128368518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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