An ERP correlate of metrical stress in spoken word recognition

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 706-720

  Böcker, Koen B E ^a,b,c   Bastiaansen, Marcel C M ^a   Vroomen, Jean ^a   Brunia, Cornelis H M ^a   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potentials; Metrical stress; Prosody; Rhythm; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STRESS;

EID: 17644428396     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299971767     Document Type: Article

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