Training Japanese Listeners to Perceive American English Vowels: Influence of Training Sets.
Purpose: Studies on speech perception training have shown that adult 2nd language learners can learn to perceive non-native consonant contrasts through laboratory training. However, research on perception training for non-native vowels is still scarce, and none of the previous vowel studies trained...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 1496 - 1510 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
December 2007
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