Modeling Infant Speech Sound Discrimination Using Simple Associative Networks

Infancy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-28

  Schafer, Graham ^a   Mareschal, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0346406483     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0201_2     Document Type: Article

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