Height differences in English dialects: Consequences for processing and representation

Language and Speech

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-272

  Scharinger, Mathias ^a,b   Lahiri, Aditi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Lexical access; Lexical representations; Phonological features; Semantic priming; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952472198     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830909357154     Document Type: Article

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