The use of sequential probabilities in the segmentation of speech

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 811-823

  Van Der Lugt, Arie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035403380     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194440     Document Type: Article

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