Implicit processing of emotional prosody in a foreign versus native language

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 519-530

  Pell, Marc D ^a   Skorup, Vera ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Cultural factors; Semantic priming; Speech processing; Vocal expression

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTIC WEB;

CULTURAL FACTORS; EMOTIONAL PROSODY; SEMANTIC PRIMING; VOCAL EXPRESSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 44149107783     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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