The word segmentation process as revealed by click detection

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-223

  Gómez, David M ^a,b   Bion, Ricardo A H ^a,c   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial speech streams; Click detection; Speech segmentation; Transitional probabilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLICK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78751686301     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.482451     Document Type: Article

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