Bootstrapping the lexicon: A computational model of infant speech segmentation

Cognition

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-206

  Batchelder, Eleanor Olds ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive models; Computational algorithm; Infants; Probabilistic cues; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH CODING;

SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CALCULATION; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036179476     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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