Effects of syllable preparation and syllable frequency in speech production: Further evidence for syllabic units at a post-lexical level

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 662-684

  Cholin, Joana ^a   Levelt, Willem ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit priming; Mental syllabary; Phonological phonetic encoding; Syllable frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 70549099731     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802348852     Document Type: Article

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