Possible-Word Constraints in Cantonese speech segmentation

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-173

  Yip, Michael C W ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Possible word constraint; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 3142594442     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000017225.65288.4b     Document Type: Article

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