Functional elements in infants' speech processing: The role of determiners in the syntactic categorization of lexical elements

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-353

  Höhle, Barbara ^a   Weissenborn, Jürgen ^b   Kiefer, Dorothea ^a   Schulz, Antje ^a   Schmitz, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 7244242335     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0503_5     Document Type: Article

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