Adding generalization to statistical learning: The induction of phonotactics from continuous speech

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-331

  Adriaans, Frans ^a   Kager, René ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Constraint induction; Phonological features; Phonotactics; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949275119     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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