The interaction between acoustic salience and language experience in developmental speech perception: Evidence from nasal place discrimination

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-420

  Narayan, Chandan R ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b   Beddor, Patrice Speeter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CANADA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952720384     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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