Exploring the Use of Prosody during Language Comprehension Using the Auditory Moving Window Technique

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-290

  Ferreira, Fernanda ^a,b   Anes, Michael D ^a   Horine, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030097224     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01708574     Document Type: Article

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