On the relation of speech to language

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 187-196

  Liberman, Alvin M ^a   Whalen, Doug H ^a  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PERCEPTION; READING; REVIEW; SOUND; SPEECH; WRITING;

EID: 0034192071     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01471-6     Document Type: Review

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