Use of word length information in utterance planning

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-231

  Meyer, Antje S ^a   Belke, Eva ^b   Häcker, Christine ^a   Mortensen, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Picture naming; Speech planning; Word length effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249083193     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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