Speaker sex influences processing of grammatical gender.

Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing of the linguistic message to proceed. In contrast, exemplar models of the l...

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Main Authors: Michael S Vitevitch, Joan Sereno, Allard Jongman, Rutherford Goldstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3827416?pdf=render