Development of Novel Speech Stimuli With Phonetic Coverage and Phonemic Balance.
Purpose: Gurevich and Kim (2022) call for new speech materials that provide not only phonemic but also allophonic coverage so that production and perception of consonants can be examined as a function of their positional contexts. The purpose of this work was to construct such materials. Method: A t...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 424 - 438 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Apr2023
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