Implicit language learning: Adults' ability to segment words in Norwegian

Bilingualism

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 513-523

  Kittleson, Megan M ^a   Aguilar, Jessica M ^a   Tokerud, Gry Line ^b   Plante, Elena ^a   Asbøjrnsen, Arve E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

implicit learning; language; second language acquisition; statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451473421     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000039     Document Type: Article

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