On the role of frequency-based cues in the segmentation strategies of adult OV-VO bilinguals

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 225-241

  de la Cruz Pavía, Irene ^a   Elordieta, Gorka ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Nuria ^b   Laka, Itziar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

artificial languages; bilingualism; context language; frequency; OV VO languages; speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919835675     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2014.904839     Document Type: Article

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