Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: New data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1493, 2008, Pages 979-1000

  Kuhl, Patricia K ^a   Conboy, Barbara T ^a   Coffey Corina, Sharon ^a   Padden, Denise ^a   Rivera Gaxiola, Maritza ^a   Nelson, Tobey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Effects of linguistic experience; Event related potentials; Language development; Neural commitment; Theories of speech perception

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODEL VALIDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION;

EID: 38549167867     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2154     Document Type: Review

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