Activation of segments, not syllables, during phonological encoding in speech production

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-250

  Schiller, Niels O ^a   Costa, Albert ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Masked priming; Phonological encoding; Speech production; Syllable priming effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249128163     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.1.2.04sch     Document Type: Article

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