Do 11-month-old French infants process articles?

Language and Speech

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 23-44

  Hallé, Pierre A ^a,b,c   Durand, Catherine ^a   De Boysson Bardies, Bénédicte ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Haskins Laboratories

^c Laboratoire de Phonetique et de Phonologie   (France)

Author keywords

Determiners; Early receptive lexicon; Noun phrases; Parsing; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849091310     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309080510010301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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