Is there only one "fenêtre" in the production lexicon? On-line evidence on the nature of phonological representations of pronunciation variants for French schwa words

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 421-437

  Bürki, Audrey ^a   Ernestus, Mirjam ^b   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Centre d'études de Sierre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

French schwa; Language production; Lexical representations; Phonological variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949873205     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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