Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When
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Elizabeth K. Johnson; Peter W. Jusczyk
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Fluent speech contains few pauses between adjacent words. Cues such as stress, phonotactic constraints, and the statistical structure of the input aid infants in discovering word boundaries. None of the many available segmentation cues is foolproof. So, we used the headturn preference procedure to i