Fourteen-month-old infants learn similar-sounding words

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 412-418

  Yoshida, Katherine A ^a   Fennell, Christopher T ^b   Swingley, Daniel ^c   Werker, Janet F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d 2136 West Mall ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PHONETICS; VISION;

HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHONETICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63749094043     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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