Lexical Selection in Action: Evidence from Spontaneous Punning

Language and Speech

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 555-573

  Otake, Takashi ^a,b   Cutler, Anne ^b,c,d  

^a E Listening Laboratory   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

embedding; homophones; Japanese; mutations; puns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMOR; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 84888314290     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830913478933     Document Type: Article

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