Proximate units in word production: Phonological encoding begins with syllables in Mandarin Chinese but with segments in English

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-302

  O'Seaghdha, Padraig G ^a   Chen, Jenn Yeu ^b   Chen, Train Min ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic analysis; Phonological encoding; Proximate units; Speech planning; Syllable production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

CHINA; CUES; ENGLAND; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649179858     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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