Isolated words enhance statistical language learning in infancy

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1323-1329

  Lew Williams, Casey ^a   Pelucchi, Bruna ^a,b   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80054954427     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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