Segmenting words from natural speech: Subsegmental variation in segmental cues

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-543

  Rytting, C Anton ^a   Brew, Chris ^b   Fosler Lussier, Eric ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTHER; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952551156     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000910000085     Document Type: Article

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