Estimation of Mental Lexicon Size with Word Familiarity Database

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Amano, Shigeaki ^a   Kondo, Tadahisa ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDIO-VISUAL; AUDIO-VISUAL STIMULUS; AUDITORY-VISUAL; AUDITORY-VISUAL STIMULUS; LOGISTIC CURVES; SIZE ESTIMATION; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE TASKS; VISUAL MODALITIES; VISUAL WORD; WORD FAMILIARITY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 14344276448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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