Processing missing vowels: Allophonic processing in Japanese

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 376-411

  Ogasawara, Naomi ^a,b   Warner, Natasha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allophone; Fine phonetic detail; Japanese; Spoken word recognition; Voiceless vowels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 62249195558     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802084028     Document Type: Article

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