Probabilistic Phonotactics and Neighborhood Activation in Spoken Word Recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 374-408

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Luce, Paul A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Spoken word recognition; probabilistic phonotactics; neighborhood activation; adaptive resonance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001074661     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1998.2618     Document Type: Article

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