A new view of language acquisition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 11850-11857

  Kuhl, Patricia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0034710978     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.22.11850     Document Type: Article

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