An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of fluent speech

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-32

  Shukla, Mohinish ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b   Mehler, Jacques ^a,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial speech; Language acquisition; Prosody; Speech segmentation; Transitional probability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845568084     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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