Processing of Illegal Consonant Clusters: A Case of Perceptual Assimilation?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 592-608

  Hallé, Pierre A ^a,c   Segui, Juan ^a   Frauenfelder, Uli ^b   Meunier, Christine ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032042272     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.2.592     Document Type: Article

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