Word segmentation with universal prosodic cues

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-199

  Endress, Ansgar D ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Language universals; Prosody; Statistical learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956057466     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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