Cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarity of vowels : the role of listeners' native accents

Vowel inventories vary across languages in terms of the phonological vowel categories within them and the phonetic properties of individual vowels. The same also holds across different accents of a language. The four studies in this project address the role of listeners’ native accents in the cros...

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Main Author: Williams, Daniel P.
Other Authors: Vismans, Roel ; Howard, Sara
Published: University of Sheffield 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570152