French native speakers in the making: From language-general to language-specific voicing boundaries

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 353-366

  Hoonhorst, Ingrid ^a,b   Colin, Cécile ^a   Markessis, Emily ^a   Radeau, Monique ^a   Deltenre, Paul ^a,c   Serniclaes, Willy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

French; Heart rate; Infancy; Speech development; Speech discrimination; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 70349462811     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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