Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation
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Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation.
The ability to discover groupings in continuous stimuli on the basis of distributional information is present across species and across perceptual modalities. We investigate the nature of the computations underlying this ability using statistical word segmentation experiments in which we vary the length of sentences, the amount of exposure, and the number of words in the languages being learned...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.07.005