Segmentation of verb forms in preverbal infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Marquis, Alexandra ^a   Shi, Rushen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

FRENCH LEARNING PREVERBAL; PREVERBAL INFANTS; VERB FORMS; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBALIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 41849130270     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2884082     Document Type: Article

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