Components of speech prosody and their use in detection of syntactic structure by older adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-151

  Hoyte, Ken J ^a   Brownell, Hiram ^a,b   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 60749105550     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730802565091     Document Type: Article

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