What do second language listeners know about spoken words? Effects of experience and attention in spoken word processing

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 309-329

  Trofimovich, Pavel ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory word priming; Language experience; Second language; Spoken word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CANADA; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIGRATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CANADA; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 47149112032     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9069-z     Document Type: Article

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