Can infants map meaning to newly segmented words? Statistical segmentation and word learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-260

  Estes, Katharine Graf ^a,c   Evans, Julia L ^b   Alibali, Martha W ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247182048     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01885.x     Document Type: Article

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