Cross-Language Perception of Japanese Vowel Length Contrasts: Comparison of Listeners From Different First Language Backgrounds.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to compare the perception of Japanese vowel length contrasts by 4 groups of listeners who differed in their familiarity with length contrasts in their first language (L1; i.e., American English, Italian, Japanese, and Thai). Of the 3 nonnative groups, native...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 805 - 815
Main Authors:	Kimiko Tsukada, Yukari Hirata, Roengpitya, Rungpat
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jun2014
Subjects:	Language acquisition Japanese people Research funding Speech evaluation Speech perception Statistics Vowels Data analysis Descriptive statistics
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