Acoustic reduction and the roles of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing

Lingua

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-41

  Ernestus, Mirjam ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abstractionist models; Acoustic reduction; Exemplar based models; Speech comprehension; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897021928     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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