The role of syntactic obligatoriness in the production of intonational boundaries

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1045-1056

  Watson, Duane ^a   Breen, Mara ^b   Gibson, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonational phrase boundaries; Language production; Prosody; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748425737     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1045     Document Type: Article

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