Phrasal prosody disambiguates syntax

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 898-909

  Millotte, Séverine ^a,b   Wales, Roger ^c   Christophe, Anne ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WRITING;

EID: 34548677294     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701205286     Document Type: Article

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