The secret is in the sound: From unsegmented speech to lexical categories

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 388-395

  Christiansen, Morten H ^a   Onnis, Luca ^b   Hockema, Stephen A ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOUND; SPEECH; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63749098754     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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