Learning of syllable-object relations by preverbal infants: The role of temporal synchrony and syllable distinctiveness

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-197

  Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant learning; Intersensory perception; Invariance detection; Lexical development; Phonetic perception; Word learning; Word object mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 75449093004     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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