Words as anchors: Known words facilitate statistical learning

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-141

  Cunillera, Toni ^a,b   Càmara, Estela ^a,c   Laine, Matti ^b   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Language learning; Lexical segmentation; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949682186     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000017     Document Type: Article

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