Phonetic specificity in early lexical acquisition: New evidence from consonants in coda positions

Language and Speech

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 463-480

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   Bertoncini, Josiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Consonants vowels; Labial coronal bias; Language acquisition; Object categorization; Onset coda; Phonetic specificity; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749122529     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830909336584     Document Type: Article

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