Does grammar constrain statistical learning? Commentary on Bonatti, Peña, Nespor, and Mehler (2005)

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 922-923

  Keidel, James L ^a   Jenison, Rick L ^a   Kluender, Keith R ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NOTE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34748877225     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02001.x     Document Type: Note

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