Distal prosodic context affects word segmentation and lexical processing

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-311

  Dilley, Laura C ^a   McAuley, J Devin ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Perceptual organization; Prosody; Rhythm; Word recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849108582     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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