Influence of metrical expectancy on reading words: An ERP study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Magne, Cyrille ^a   Gordon, Reyna L ^b   Midha, Swati ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Reading; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; BISYLLABIC WORDS; SPEECH RHYTHM; STRESS PATTERNS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84956843772     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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