Pitch accents in context: How listeners process accentuation in referential communication

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2022-2036

  Bögels, Sara ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a   Vonk, Wietske ^b   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language comprehension; N400; Prosody; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH ACCENT; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COLOR; COMMUNICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956093720     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.032     Document Type: Article

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