The link between statistical segmentation and word learning in adults

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 271-280

  Mirman, Daniel ^a,b   Magnuson, James S ^a,b   Estes, Katharine Graf ^c   Dixon, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Statistical learning; Word learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44249106330     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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