The developmental course of lexical tone perception in the first year of life

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1367-1381

  Mattock, Karen ^a   Molnar, Monika ^a   Polka, Linda ^a   Burnham, Denis ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross language; Infants; Lexical tone; Speech perception; Tone discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38649133834     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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