Potent prosody: Comparing the effects of distal prosody, proximal prosody, and semantic context on word segmentation

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 274-294

  Dilley, Laura C ^a   Mattys, Sven L ^b   Vinke, Louis ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Perceptual organization; Prosody; Rhythm; Word recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956063270     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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