A cross-language comparison of vowel perception in English-learning and German-learning infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 577-592

  Polka, Linda ^a   Bohn, Ocke Schwen ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ADULT; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030018215     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415884     Document Type: Article

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