Learning a talker or learning an accent: Acoustic similarity constrains generalization of foreign accent adaptation to new talkers
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.005