Stimulus-based lexical distinctiveness as a general word-recognition mechanism

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 667-679

  Mattys, Sven L ^a,b   Bernstein, Lynne E ^a   Auer Jr , Edward T ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036581782     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194734     Document Type: Article

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