Levels of description in consonant/vowel processing: Reply to Knobel and Caramazza

Brain and Language

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-108

  Monaghan, Padraic ^a   Shillcock, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Computational modeling; Consonant vowel distinction; Levels of description

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSONANT; DISSOCIATION; DYSGRAPHIA; HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; VOWEL;

EID: 33751011313     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.09.002     Document Type: Note

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