Colliding cues in word segmentation: The role of cue strength and general cognitive processes

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 402-422

  Weiss, Daniel J ^a   Gerfen, Chip ^a   Mitchel, Aaron D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Simon task; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951146448     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903212254     Document Type: Article

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