A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition

Psychological Review

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 751-778

  Feldman, Naomi H ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^b   Goldwater, Sharon ^c   Morgan, James L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Language acquisition; Phonetic category learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84887542852     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034245     Document Type: Article

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