The acquisition of the voicing contrast in English: A study of voice onset time in word-initial stop consonants

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 41-74

  Barton, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VOICE;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; VOICE;

EID: 0018981495     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000900007029     Document Type: Article

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