Phonetic Detail in the Developing Lexicon

Language and Speech

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 265-294

  Swingley, Daniel ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation; Language acquisition; Lexicon; Phoneme; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345759568     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309030460021001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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