Probabilistic Phonotactics in Spoken Word Recognition

The Handbook of Speech Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 610-630

  Auer, Edward T ^a   Luce, Paul A ^b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Probabilistic phonotactics; Spoken language processing; Spoken word recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890611241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757024.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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