Lexical competition in nonnative speech comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1165-1178

  Fitzpatrick, Ian ^a,b   Indefrey, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952053980     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21301     Document Type: Article

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