Do weak syllables count for newborns?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3735-3741

  Van Ooijen, Brit ^a   Bertoncini, Josiane ^a   Sansavini, Alessandra ^b   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SUCKING; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031443515     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420136     Document Type: Article

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