Combining techniques to reveal emergent effects in infants' segmentation, word learning, and grammar

Language and Speech

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-19

  Hollich, George ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain general; Grammar; Methodology; Speech perception; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747086128     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309060490010201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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