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Linguistic Structure and Speech Shadowing at Very Short Latencies

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SPEECH shadowing is an experimental task in which the subject is required to repeat (shadow) speech as he hears it. When the shadower is presented with a sentence, he will start to repeat it before he has heard all of it. The response latency to each word of a sentence can therefore be measured.

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MARSLEN-WILSON, W. Linguistic Structure and Speech Shadowing at Very Short Latencies. Nature 244, 522–523 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244522a0

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