Early segmentation of fluent speech into words : Cross-linguistic evaluation of the rhythmic bootstrapping hypothesis;Segmentation précoce de la parole continue en mots : évaluation inter-linguistique de l'hypothèse d'initialisation rythmique

Annee Psychologique

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 309-342

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

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EID: 67249110782     PISSN: 00035033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4074/S0003503308002054     Document Type: Article

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