Lexical tone in Cantonese spoken-word processing

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-179

  Cutler, Anne ^a   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031068564     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211886     Document Type: Article

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