Discriminating spoken words in French: The role of the syllable and the CV phonological skeleton

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 241-267

  Floccia, Caroline ^a   Kolinsky, Régine ^b,c   Dodane, Christelle ^a   Morais, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COGNITION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY; VOWEL;

EID: 0037712182     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960244000009     Document Type: Article

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