Influence of prosodic boundaries on comprehension of spoken English sentences

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-18

  Blasko, Dawn G ^a   Hall, Michael D ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0032133126     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.1.3     Document Type: Article

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