Clause segmentation by 6-month-old infants: A crosslinguistic perspective

Infancy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 440-455

  Johnson, Elizabeth ^a   Seidl, Amanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH THERAPY;

EID: 53349101337     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802329321     Document Type: Article

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