The dynamics of lexical competition during spoken word recognition

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-156

  Magnuson, James S ^a,b   Dixon, James A ^a   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^c   Aslin, Richard N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Psycholinguistics; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947394080     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210709336987     Document Type: Article

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