When overlap leads to competition: Effects of phonological encoding on word duration

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1701-1708

  Yiu, Loretta K ^a   Watson, Duane G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic reduction; Processing time; Word duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; TIME FACTOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84947030407     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0828-1     Document Type: Article

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