Lexical frequency effects on articulation: A comparison of picture naming and reading aloud

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Mousikou, Petroula ^a   Rastle, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Articulation; Picture naming; Reaction times; Reading aloud; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947270186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01571     Document Type: Article

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