The Influence of the Phonological Neighborhood Clustering Coefficient on Spoken Word Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1934-1949

  Chan, Kit Ying ^a   Vitevitch, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

clustering coefficient; neighborhood density; network science; small world network; spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 73649097996     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016902     Document Type: Article

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