Contingent categorisation in speech perception

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1070-1082

  Apfelbaum, Keith S ^a   Bullock Rest, Natasha ^b,e   Rhone, Ariane E ^c   Jongman, Allard ^d   McMurray, Bob ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent categorisation; Expectation; Fricatives; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTINGENT VALUATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAMMAR; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84928992132     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2013.824995     Document Type: Article

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