EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1246-1258

  Duchon, Andrew ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b   Sebastián Gallés, Nuria ^c   Martí, Antonia ^d   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,e  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Subtitles; Word frequency; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; SPAIN; SPEECH; VALIDATION STUDY;

DATA DISPLAY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SPAIN; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84877314693     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0326-1     Document Type: Article

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