An online calculator to compute phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on the basis of child corpora of spoken American English

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 497-506

  Storkel, Holly L ^a   Hoover, Jill R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; CHILD; COMPUTERS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77955375988     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.2.497     Document Type: Article

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