Language dominance shapes non-linguistic rhythmic grouping in bilinguals

Cognition

Volumn 152, Issue , 2016, Pages 150-159

  Molnar, Monika ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Gervain, Judit ^c,d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Non linguistic tone; Phrasal prosody; Rhythmic grouping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SCHOOL CHILD; VOWEL; ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962775593     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.023     Document Type: Article

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