Bias for consonantal information over vocalic information in 30-month-olds: Cross-linguistic evidence from French and English

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 522-537

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   Floccia, Caroline ^b   Moquet, Bérangère ^a   Butler, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consonants Vowels; Cross linguistic comparisons; English; French; Language acquisition; Object categorization; Phonetic specificity; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM; VOICE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; VOICE;

EID: 61349203907     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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