The impact of attention load on the use of statistical information and coarticulation as speech segmentation cues

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1522-1532

  Fernandes, Tânia ^a   Kolinsky, Régine ^b   Ventura, Paulo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77957656495     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1522     Document Type: Article

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