How children and adults produce and perceive uncertainty in audiovisual speech

Language and Speech

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-53

  Krahmer, Emiel ^a   Swerts, Marc ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audiovisual speech; Children; Feeling of Another's Knowing; Feeling of Knowing; Question answering; Speech perception; Speech production; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944548670     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309050480010201     Document Type: Article

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