Young children's sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 183-213

  Coady, Jeffry A ^a,b   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Learning; Memory; Phonology; Representation (linguistic); Speech Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 7444231570     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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