Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 244-249

  Frazier, Lyn ^a   Carlson, Katy ^b   Clifton Jr , Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SYNTACTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

DURATIONAL PROPERTIES; GRAMMAR; PROSODIC BOUNDARY; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33744928666     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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