Constraining the search for structure in the input

Lingua

Volumn 106, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 197-218

  Jusczyk, Peter W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous dependencies; Optimality Theory; Phonotactics; Prosodic markers; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000042451     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(98)00034-5     Document Type: Article

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