Development of phonological constancy: Toddlers' perception of native- and Jamaican-accented words: Research report

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-542

  Best, Catherine T ^a,b   Tyler, Michael D ^a   Gooding, Tiffany N ^b,c   Orlando, Corey B ^c   Quann, Chelsea A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65549137651     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02327.x     Document Type: Article

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