Influence of consonantal context on the pronunciation of vowels: A comparison of human readers and computational models

Cognition

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-78

  Treiman, Rebecca ^a   Kessler, Brett ^a   Bick, Suzanne ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Nonwords; Onset; Reading; Rime; Vowel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; STUDENTS;

CONSONANTAL CONTEXT;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

EID: 0037404127     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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