Diminutives in child-directed speech supplement metric with distributional word segmentation cues

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 145-151

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Brooks, Patricia J ^b   Gillis, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 21244465567     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196360     Document Type: Article

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