Better processing of consonantal over vocalic information in word learning at 16 months of age

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-456

  Havy, Mélanie ^a   Nazzi, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PHONETICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 68549101846     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000902996532     Document Type: Article

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