Lexical access problems lead to disfluencies in speech

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 169-177

  Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a   Lies Notebaert, ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disfluencies; Hesitations; Language production; Lexical access; Pauses; Picture name agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951627057     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000021     Document Type: Article

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