Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 555-579

  Hanulíková, Adriana ^a   McQueen, James M ^a,b   Mitterer, Holger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fixed stress; Possible word constraint; Segmentation; Slovak; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SLOVAKIA; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLOVAKIA; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77949557194     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903038958     Document Type: Article

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