Changing structures in midstream: Learning along the statistical garden path

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1087-1116

  Gebhart, Andrea L ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Primacy; Representation; Statistical learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951655817     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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