Effects of homophony on reading aloud: Implications for models of speech production

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 804-842

  Biedermann, Britta ^a   Coltheart, Max ^a   Nickels, Lyndsey ^a   Saunders, Steve ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model; Homophone reading aloud; Homophone representation; Models of reading aloud

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMOPHONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; READING ALOUD; SIMULATION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450255143     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802597243     Document Type: Article

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