Transitional probabilities and positional frequency phonotactics in a hierarchical model of speech segmentation

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1085-1093

  Mersad, Karima ^a   Nazzi, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Adults; French; Phonotactics; Positional frequency; Transitional probabilities; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055031270     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0074-3     Document Type: Article

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