Geminate template: A model for first Finnish words

First Language

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-359

  Savinainen Makkonen, Tuula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Department of Speech Sciences ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Acquisition of Finnish; Phonological acquisition; Templates

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249149166     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707081728     Document Type: Article

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