Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for the impact of regional variation on phoneme perception

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 390-396

  Brunellière, Angèle ^a   Dufour, Sophie ^b   Nguyen, Noël ^b   Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity; Phonological variation; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349178651     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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