Infants use prosodically conditioned acoustic-phonetic cues to extract words from speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TARGETS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MARYLAND; PATIENT SELECTION; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44949253999     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2908407     Document Type: Article

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