Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1203-1217

  Reinisch, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Speaking rate; Speech perception; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957610188     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1067-x     Document Type: Article

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