Sonority and cross-linguistic acquisition of initial s-clusters

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 421-441

  Yavas, Mehmet ^a   Ben David, Avivit ^b   Gerrits, Ellen ^c   Kristoffersen, Kristian E ^d   Simonsen, Hanne G ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Phonological acquisition; S clusters; Sonority

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHONATION; PHONETICS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 45949108594     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701875864     Document Type: Article

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