The metamorphosis of the statistical segmentation output: Lexicalization during artificial language learning

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-366

  Fernandes, Tânia ^a,b   Kolinsky, Régine ^b,c   Ventura, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial language learning; Lexicalization; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATION; HEARING; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 68049139253     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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