An ERP investigation of regional and foreign accent processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-102

  Goslin, Jeremy ^a   Duffy, Hester ^a   Floccia, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accents; ERP; Language processing; Lexical access; N400; Normalisation; PMN; Speech variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN ACCENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; REGIONAL ACCENT; SPEECH; UNITED KINGDOM; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864325424     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

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