The processing of dialectal variants: Further insight from French

• Published in: Applied psycholinguistics Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 351 - 372
• Main Authors: DUFOUR, SOPHIE, CHUANG, YU-YING, NGUYEN, NOËL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.03.2019; Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Subjects: Acoustics; Cognitive science; Dialects; English; French language; Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Language; Linguistics; North American English; Original Article; Pattern recognition; Phonemics; Phonetic features; Phonetics; Phonology; Priming; Recognition (Psychology); Regional dialects; Semantics; Semiotics; Speech; Standard Spoken Usage; Syllables; Vowels; Word recognition; semantic priming; dialectal variants; spoken word recognition; lexical representations

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