Producing and recognizing words with two pronunciation variants: Evidence from novel schwa words

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 796-824

  Bürki, Audrey ^a   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Centre d'Études de Sierre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lexical representations; Novel words; Phonological variation; Schwa; Spoken word recognition; Word production

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859589894     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.634915     Document Type: Article

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