Stuttering and natural speech processing of semantic and syntactic constraints on verbs

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1058-1071

  Weber Fox, Christine ^a,b   Hampton, Amanda ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Language; Semantic anomalies; Stuttering; Verb agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; STUTTERING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STUTTERING;

EID: 52949087866     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0164)     Document Type: Article

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