The interaction of subsyllabic encoding and stress assignment: A new examination of an old problem in Spanish

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1459-1478

  Shelton, Michael ^a   Gerfen, Chip ^b   Gutiérrez Palma, Nicolás ^c  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Phonology; Spanish; Stress encoding; Syllable encoding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SYLLABLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84868570219     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.610595     Document Type: Article

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