Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants
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Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants.
The Possible Word Constraint limits the number of lexical candidates considered in speech recognition by stipulating that input should be parsed into a string of lexically viable chunks. For instance, an isolated single consonant is not a feasible word candidate. Any segmentation containing such a chunk is disfavored. Five experiments using the head-turn preference procedure investigated whethe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0010-0285
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0285(02)00507-8