Listeners feel the beat: Entrainment to English and French speech rhythms

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1035-1041

  Lidji, Pascale ^a,b,c   Palmer, Caroline ^a   Peretz, Isabelle ^b   Morningstar, Michele ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Entrainment; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sensorimotor synchronization; Speech perception; Speech rhythm; Stress timed language; Syllable timed language

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355139724     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0163-0     Document Type: Article

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