A limit on behavioral plasticity in speech perception

Cognition

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Pallier, Christophe ^a,b,c   Bosch, Laura ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral plasticity; Catalan; Spanish; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031217502     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00030-9     Document Type: Article

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