Segmental and syllabic representations in the perception of speech by young infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1901-1911

  Eimas, Peter D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSONANT; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033012994     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426726     Document Type: Article

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