Tone of voice guides word learning in informative referential contexts

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1227-1240

  Reinisch, Eva ^a,b   Jesse, Alexandra ^c   Nygaard, Lynne C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosody; Speech perception; Tone of voice; Word learning; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84878627624     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.736525     Document Type: Article

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