Speech segmentation and word discovery: A computational perspective

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 294-301

  Brent, Michael R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032809329     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01350-9     Document Type: Review

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