Prosodic pitch accents in language comprehension and production: ERP data and acoustic analyses

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-68

  Heim, Stefan ^a,b   Alter, Kai ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comprehension; ERP; Event related potentials; Language; Pitch accent; Production; Prosody; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645533620     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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