Moving to the speed of sound: Context modulation of the effect of acoustic properties of speech

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1063-1074

  Shintel, Hadas ^a   Nusbaum, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse context; Embodied cognition; Perception behavior effect; Prosody; Spoken language comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949104896     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210801897831     Document Type: Article

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