Word segmentation by 8-month-olds: When speech cues count more than statistics

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 548-567

  Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a   Jusczyk, Peter W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarticulation; Prosodic stress; Statistical cues; Statistical learning; Stress cues; Transitional probabilities; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035742477     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2755     Document Type: Article

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