Investigation of the process underpinning vowel-size correspondence

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 390-399

  Ohtake, Yuka ^a   Haryu, Etsuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic features; Kinesthetic experience; Sound symbolism; Speeded classification; Vowel size correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884976169     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpr.12029     Document Type: Article

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