Primitive computations in speech processing

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2187-2209

  Endress, Ansgar D ^a   Mehler, Jacques ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Language acquisition; Serial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349536150     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902783646     Document Type: Article

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