Japanese mora-timing: A review

Phonetica

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 1-25

  Warner, Natasha ^a   Arai, Takayuki ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; REVIEW; TIME;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0035229795     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028486     Document Type: Review

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