Diminutives facilitate word segmentation in natural speech: Cross-linguistic evidence

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 762-773

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Brooks, Patricia J ^b   Gillis, Steven ^c   Samson, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547854298     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193313     Document Type: Article

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