New measures to chart toddlers' speech perception and language development: A test of the lexical restructuring hypothesis

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 897-900

  Schwarz, Iris Corinna ^a   Burnham, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Early language acquisition; Lexical restructuring hypothesis; Phoneme sensitivity; Vocabulary development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ENGLISH LEARNING; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEXICAL RESTRUCTURING HYPOTHESIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHONEME SENSITIVITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 44949111631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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