Speaking rate from proximal and distal contexts is used during word segmentation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 978-996

  Reinisch, Eva ^a   Jesse, Alexandra ^a   McQueen, James M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context effects; Eye tracking; Speaking rate; Spoken word recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958754964     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021923     Document Type: Article

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