Beyond stop consonants: Consonantal specificity in early lexical acquisition

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-279

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   New, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247109514     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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