Perception of prosodic hierarchical boundaries in Mandarin Chinese sentences

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1416-1425

  Li, W ^a,b   Yang, Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

closure positive shift; intonational phrase boundaries; phonological phrase boundaries; prosodic word boundaries; syllable boundaries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60149109685     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.10.065     Document Type: Article

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