Mapping sound to meaning: Connections between learning about sounds and learning about words

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-38

  Saffran, Jenny R ^a   Graf Estes, Katharine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; INFANT; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34147093156     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2407(06)80003-0     Document Type: Article

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