Contribution of implicit sequence learning to spoken language processing: Some preliminary findings with hearing adults

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-334

  Conway, Christopher M ^a   Karpicke, Jennifer ^a   Pisoni, David B ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34447580022     PISSN: 10814159     EISSN: 14657325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enm019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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