Infant word segmentation revisited: Edge alignment facilitates target extraction

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 565-573

  Seidl, Amanda ^a,c   Johnson, Elizabeth K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33750282232     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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