The semantics of prosody: Acoustic and perceptual evidence of prosodic correlates to word meaning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-146

  Nygaard, Lynne C ^a   Herold, Debora S ^b   Namy, Laura L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis of speech; Prosody; Semantics; Spoken language processing; Word learning; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349203430     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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