Frequency and form as determinants of functor sensitivity in English-acquiring infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Cutler, Anne ^b   Werker, Janet ^c   Cruickshank, Marisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MISPRONUNCIATIONS; PSEUDO-NOUNS; VOCABULARY ITEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33745106612     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2198947     Document Type: Article

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