THE BACON not the bacon: How children and adults understand accented and unaccented noun phrases

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-99

  Arnold, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accenting; Language comprehension; Language development; Reference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44249120050     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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