The importance of studying prosody in the comprehension of spontaneous spoken discourse;La importancia de estudiar la prosodia en la comprensión del discurso hablado espontáneo

Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-33

  Cevasco, Jazmín ^a   Marmolejo Ramos, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CoSESM model; Discourse Comprehension; Inference Generation; Prosodic Cues; Spontaneous Spoken Discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878003435     PISSN: 01200534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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