New tests of the distal speech rate effect: Examining cross-linguistic generalization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Dilley, Laura C ^a   Morrill, Tuuli H ^a   Banzina, Elina ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal speech rate; Lexical perception; Non native perception; Speech recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891715286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01002     Document Type: Article

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