Rule-governed missing information in spoken word recognition: Schwa vowel deletion

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 208-219

  LoCasto, Paul C ^a   Connine, Cynthia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036485267     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195787     Document Type: Article

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