Words in puddles of sound: Modelling psycholinguistic effects in speech segmentation

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 545-564

  Monaghan, Padraic ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77952544114     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990511     Document Type: Article

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