Specific-Word Frequency Is Not All that Counts in Speech Production: Comments on Caramazza, Costa, et al. (2001) and New Experimental Data

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 432-438

  Jescheniak, Jörg D ^a,b   Meyer, Antje S ^c   Levelt, Willem J M ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0041408666     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.3.432     Document Type: Article

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