The acquisition of allophonic rules: Statistical learning with linguistic constraints

Cognition

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Peperkamp, Sharon ^a,b   Le Calvez, Rozenn ^a,c   Nadal, Jean Pierre ^c   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Allophonic rules; First language acquisition; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONATION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33749426616     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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