Prosodic structure and wh-questions

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-394

  Straub, Kathleen ^a   Wilson, Colin ^a   McCollum, Courtney ^a   Badecker, William ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonation; Sentence prosody; Syntactic gaps

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0035403369     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010469607504     Document Type: Article

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