Iconic Prosody in Story Reading

Cognitive Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1348-1368

  Perlman, Marcus ^a   Clark, Nathaniel ^b   Johansson Falck, Marlene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Iconicity; Prosody; Speech production; Vocal gesture

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; GESTURE; HUMAN; READING; SPEECH;

COMPREHENSION; GESTURES; HUMANS; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 84937689762     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: 15516709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12190     Document Type: Article

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