Production benefits of childhood overhearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 465-474

  Knightly, Leah M ^a   Jun, Sun Ah ^a   Oh, Janet S ^a   Au, Terry Kit fong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SET THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

MORPHOSYNTAX;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILDHOOD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0038504531     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1577560     Document Type: Article

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