Learning to assign lexical stress during reading aloud: Corpus, behavioral, and computational investigations

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 180-196

  Arciuli, Joanne ^a   Monaghan, Padraic ^b   Seva, Nada ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lexical stress; Orthography; Probabilistic cues; Reading; Reading acquisition; Reading aloud; Reading development; Statistical learning; Stress assignment; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954213296     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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