Phonotactic probabilities at the onset of language development: Speech production and word position

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-60

  Zamuner, Tania S ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lexical development; Phonological representations; Phonotactic probability; Prosody; Speech production

Indexed keywords

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 60049099372     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0138)     Document Type: Article

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