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Direct linkNewport, Elissa L.; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
In earlier work we have shown that adults, young children, and infants are capable of computing transitional probabilities among adjacent syllables in rapidly presented streams of speech, and of using these statistics to group adjacent syllables into word-like units. In the present experiments we ask whether adult learners are also capable of such…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Probability, Syllables, Language Research
