Planning and Articulation in Incremental Word Production: Syllable-Frequency Effects in English

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-122

  Cholin, Joana ^a   Dell, Gary S ^b   Levelt, Willem J M ^c  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

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

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Articulation; Language production; Speech planning; Syllable frequency effects; Word form encoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251482763     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021322     Document Type: Article

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