Lexical representation of phonological variants: Evidence from pseudohomophone effects in different regiolects

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 424-442

  Bürki, Audrey ^a,b   Alario, F Xavier ^c,d   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e Centre d'études de Sierre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Language production; Lexical representations; Phonological variation; Pseudohomophones; Schwa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953217630     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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