Rapid acquisition of phonological alternations by infants

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 238-265

  White, Katherine S ^a   Peperkamp, Sharon ^b   Kirk, Cecilia ^c   Morgan, James L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Infant speech perception; Phonological alternations; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE CHANGE;

EID: 40649099321     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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