The role of perceptual salience during the segmentation of connected speech

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 786-800

  Toro, Juan M ^a,b   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^b   Mattys, Sven L ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Perceptual salience; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPAIN; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449635788     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440802405584     Document Type: Article

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