Lexical activity in speech processing: Evidence from pause detection

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-359

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Clark, Jamie H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohorts; Lexical activity; Pause detection; Speech recognition timecourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036771913     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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