What we know about what we have never heard: Evidence from perceptual illusions

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 591-630

  Berent, Iris ^a   Steriade, Donca ^b   Lennertz, Tracy ^a   Vaknin, Vered ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Markedness; Optimality theory; Phonology; Sonority; Speech perception; Typology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; ILLUSION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447263296     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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