Statistical Learning in a Natural Language by 8-Month-Old Infants

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 674-685

  Pelucchi, Bruna ^a,b   Hay, Jessica F ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 66149192668     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01290.x     Document Type: Article

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