Effect of speaking rate on the identification of word boundaries

Phonetica

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 173-186

  Schwab, Sandra ^a   Miller, Joanne L ^c   Grosjean, François ^a   Mondini, Michèle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b SVOX AG   (Switzerland)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49149088892     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000144078     Document Type: Article

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