An ERP study of continuous speech processing: I. Segmentation, semantics, and syntax in native speakers

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 228-240

  Sanders, Lisa D ^a,b   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Language; Lexical; Speech perception; Speech segmentation; Temporal parsing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037299734     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00195-7     Document Type: Article

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