Infants' Preference for the Predominant Stress Patterns of English Words

Child Development

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 675-687

  Jusczyk, Peter W ^a   Cutler, Anne ^b   Redanz, Nancy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0027620110     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb02935.x     Document Type: Article

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