How to hit scylla without avoiding charybdis: Comment on Perruchet, Tyler, Galland, and Peereman (2004)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 314-321

  Bonatti, Luca L ^a,e   Nespor, Marina ^b   Peña, Marcela ^c   Mehler, Jacques ^d  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Language; Parsing; Rule learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33745072711     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.135.2.314     Document Type: Review

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