Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel: Scaffolding from child-directed speech

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Yurovsky, Daniel ^a   Yu, Chen ^b   Smith, Linda B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child directed speech; Frequent frames; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870859837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00374     Document Type: Article

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