Vowel categorization during word recognition in bilingual toddlers

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-121

  Ramon Casas, Marta ^a   Swingley, Daniel ^b   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a,c   Bosch, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Infant; Language development; Phonology; Speech perception; Toddler; Vowel; Word learning; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67549128984     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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