Effects of Syntactic Expectations on Speech Segmentation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 960-977

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Melhorn, James F ^a   White, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allophony; lexical competition; speech segmentation; syntactic expectations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34548847984     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.960     Document Type: Article

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