Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: the case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/

2003/12/04 by Katsura Aoyama, James Emil Flege, Susan G Guion +3 · 359 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #American English #First language #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Perception #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Psychology #Second language #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Speech perception

paper · doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(03)00036-6

published in Journal of Phonetics 32(2), 233-250 (Elsevier BV)

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