Nine-month-olds extract structural principles required for natural language

Cognition

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Gerken, Louann ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Infants; Learner; Metrical phonology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 5444275925     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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