?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Connectionist+modelling+of+lexical+segmentation+and+vocabulary+acquisition&rft.creator=Davis%2C+Matt+H.&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Adults+typically+hear+sentences+in+their+native+language+as+a+sequence+of+separate+words+and+we+might+therefeore+assume%2C+that+words+in+speech+are+physically+separated+in+the+way+that+they+are+perceived.+However%2C+when+listening+to+an+unfamiliar+language+we+no+longer+experience+sequences+of+discrete+words%2C+but+rather+hear+a+continuous+stream+of+speech+with+boundaries+separating+individual+sentences+or+utterances.+Theories+of+how+adult+listeners+segment+the+speech+stream+into+words+emphasise+the+role+that+knowledge+of+individual+words+plays+in+the+segmentation+of+speech.+However%2C+since+words+can+not+be+learnt+until+the+speech+stream+can+be+segmented%2C+it+seems+unlikely+that+infants+will+be+able+to+use+word+recognition+to+segment+connected+speech.+For+this+reason%2C+researchers+have+proposed+a+variety+of+strategies+and+cues+that+infants+could+use+to+identify+word+boundaries+without+being+able+to+recognise+the+words+that+these+boundaries+delimit.+This+chapter%2C+describes+some+computational+simulations+proposing+ways+in+which+these+cues+and+strategies+for+the+acquisition+of+lexical+segmentation+can+be+integrated+with+the+infants%C2%92+acquisition+of+the+meanings+of+words.+The+simulations+reported+here+describe+simple+computational+mechanisms+and+knowledge+sources+that+may+support+these+different+aspects+of+language+acquisition.&rft.publisher=Psychology+Press&rft.contributor=Quinlan%2C+Philip&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2306%2F3%2FDavis.Quinlan_Chapter.pdf&rft.identifier=++Davis%2C+Matt+H.++(2002)+Connectionist+modelling+of+lexical+segmentation+and+vocabulary+acquisition.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2306%2F