Use of phonetic specificity during the acquisition of new words: Differences between consonants and vowels

Cognition

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-30

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Consonants vowels; Language acquisition; Object categorization; Phonetic specificity; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOICE; VOWEL;

HUMANS; INFANT; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27744505214     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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