When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1275-1302

  Heffner, Christopher C ^a   Dilley, Laura C ^a   McAuley, J Devin ^a   Pitt, Mark A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical perception; Prosody; Speech rate; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH RATE; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84886447069     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.672229     Document Type: Article

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