Words in a sea of sounds: The output of infant statistical learning

Cognition

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-169

  Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant statistical learning; Output; Words in a sea of sounds

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; EDUCATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

STATISTICAL LEARNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EAR INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NOISE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0035452919     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00132-9     Document Type: Article

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