The role of syntactic structure in guiding prosody perception with ordinary listeners and everyday speech

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1141-1177

  Cole, Jennifer ^a   Mo, Yoonsook ^a   Baek, Soondo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosody perception; Prosody production; Prosody transcription; Spontaneous speech; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOWEL;

EID: 77957812935     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903525507     Document Type: Article

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