Emergence of the corner vowels in the babble produced by infants exposed to Canadian English or Canadian French

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 564-577

  Rvachew, Susan ^a   Alhaidary, Abdulsalam ^a   Mattock, Karen ^a   Polka, Linda ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 54149106484     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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