Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech.
Ann R. Bradlow,Tessa Bent +1 more
TL;DR: Findings provide evidence for highly flexible speech perception processes that can adapt to speech that deviates substantially from the pronunciation norms in the native talker community along multiple acoustic-phonetic dimensions.
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About: This article is published in Cognition. The article was published on 01 Feb 2008. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Speech perception & Intelligibility (communication).
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