Rhythmic alternation and the optional complementiser in English: New evidence of phonological influence on grammatical encoding

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 446-456

  Lee, Ming Wei ^a   Gibbons, Julie ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementiser; Grammatical encoding; Language production; Phonological encoding; Prosody; Rhythmic alternation; Sentence production; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPEECH;

CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548398127     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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