Not all disfluencies are are equal: The effects of disfluent repetitions on language comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-45

  MacGregor, Lucy J ^a   Corley, Martin ^b   Donaldson, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disfluency; ERPs; Language comprehension; Repetitions; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349453937     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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