Naturalistic and experimental analyses of word frequency and neighborhood density effects in slips of the ear

Language and Speech

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 407-434

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mondegreens; Neighborhood density; Speech errors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0141499212     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309020450040501     Document Type: Article

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