Pauses and intonational phrasing: ERP studies in 5-month-old German infants and adults

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1988-2006

  Männel, Claudia ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349256429     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21221     Document Type: Article

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