Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-{A figure is presented}/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English

Cognition

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 369-388

  Sundara, Megha ^a   Polka, Linda ^a   Genesee, Fred ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingual; children; consonant discrimination; cross language; facilitation; French; speech perception

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CANADA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33746883143     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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