Language universals in human brains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5321-5325

  Berent, Iris ^a   Lennertz, Tracy ^a   Jun, Jongho ^b   Moreno, Miguel A ^c,d   Smolensky, Paul ^e  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimality theory; Phonology; Sonority; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CONTROL; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; KOREA; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS;

EID: 44449128839     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801469105     Document Type: Article

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