Audiovisual vowel monitoring and the word superiority effect in children

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 457-467

  Fort, Mathilde ^a   Spinelli, Elsa ^a,b   Savariaux, Christophe ^c   Kandel, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

audiovisual speech perception; children; lexical access; noise; speech development; word recognition; word superiority effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868099013     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025412447752     Document Type: Article

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