Features in Speech Perception and Lexical Access

The Handbook of Speech Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 124-155

  Stevens, Kenneth N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulator free features; Lexical access; Perceptual relations; Peripheral auditory system; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890683375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757024.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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