Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Kuhl, Patricia K ^a   Stevens, Erica ^a   Hayashi, Akiko ^b   Deguchi, Toshisada ^b   Kiritani, Shigeru ^c   Iverson, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Faculty of English Literature of Kobe Kaisei   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645019676     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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