The processing of English regular inflections: Phonological cues to morphological structure

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Post, Brechtje ^a   Marslen Wilson, William D ^b   Randall, Billi ^c   Tyler, Lorraine K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Speech Language and the Brain   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English inflection; Morphology; Phonology; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54249099015     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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