Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-52

  Saffran, Jenny R ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth K ^b   Aslin, Richard N ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous speech; Statistical learning ability; Word Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; SPEECH; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033041815     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00075-4     Document Type: Article

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