Cross-language speech perception: Initial capabilities and developmental change.
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Cross-Language Speech Perception: Initial Capabilities and Developmental Change
This article reports three studies designed to increase our understanding of developmental changes in cross-language speech perception. In the first study, we compared adult speakers of English and Hindi on their ability to discriminate pairings from a synthetic voiced, unaspirated place-of-articulation continuum. Results indicated that English listeners discriminate two categories (ba vs. (Ja)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Psychology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0012-1649
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.24.5.672