Effects of dialect on merger perception: ERP and behavioral correlates

Brain and Language

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 435-449

  Conrey, Brianna ^a   Potts, Geoffrey F ^b   Niedzielski, Nancy A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect perception; Language related ERPs; Late positive component; Late positivity; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS; VOWEL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27844579213     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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