Phonotactic and Prosodic Effects on Word Segmentation in Infants

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 465-494

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Jusczyk, Peter W ^b   Luce, Paul A ^b   Morgan, James L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033144282     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1999.0721     Document Type: Article

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