It's the way that you, er, say it: Hesitations in speech affect language comprehension

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 658-668

  Corley, Martin ^a   MacGregor, Lucy J ^a   Donaldson, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disfluency; ERPs; Language comprehension; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34848825902     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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