A role for backward transitional probabilities in word segmentation?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1299-1305

  Perruchet, Pierre ^a   Desaulty, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 54949109758     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.7.1299     Document Type: Article

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