Language acquisition as complex category formation

Phonetica

Volumn 57, Issue 2-4, 2000, Pages 189-196

  Lotto, Andrew J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034171071     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028472     Document Type: Article

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