Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination

Cognition

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Maye, Jessica ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b   Gerken, LouAnn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional information; Infant sensitivity; Phonetic discrimination

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION USE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTIONAL INFORMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036135352     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00157-3     Document Type: Article

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