The processing of German word stress: Evidence for the prosodic hierarchy

Phonology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-36

  Domahs, Ulrike ^a   Wiese, Richard ^a   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 60950173421     PISSN: 09526757     EISSN: 14698188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952675708001383     Document Type: Article

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