The multidimensional nature of hyperspeech: Evidence from Japanese vowel devoicing

Cognition

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 216-228

  Martin, Andrew ^a   Utsugi, Akira ^a,b   Mazuka, Reiko ^a,c  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperspeech; Infant directed speech; Japanese; Phonological rules; Read speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSPEECH; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL; VOWEL DEVOICING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHERS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84899926735     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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