Rhythmic Grouping Biases Constrain Infant Statistical Learning

Infancy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 610-641

  Hay, Jessica F ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IAMBIC TROCHAIC LAW; INFANT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STRESS CONSTRAIN STATISTICAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84867143409     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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