The Strength and Time Course of Lexical Activation of Pronunciation Variants

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 896-910

  Pitt, Mark A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

medial t deletion; pronunciation variation; spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

CUES; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 67549105023     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013160     Document Type: Article

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