Discriminating languages by speech-reading
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Discriminating languages by speech-reading.
The goal of this study was to explore the ability to discriminate languages using the visual correlates of speech (i.e., speech-reading). Participants were presented with silent video clips of an actor pronouncing two sentences (in Catalan and/or Spanish) and were asked to judge whether the sentences were in the same language or in different languages. Our results established that Spanish-Catal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Perception & Psychophysics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0031-5117,1532-5962
DOI: 10.3758/bf03193744