Neuroscience: Does grammar start where statistics stop?

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5593, 2002, Pages 553-554

  Seidenberg, Mark S ^a   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOUND; SPEECH; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0037131388     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078094     Document Type: Short Survey

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