Dogs, bogs, labs, and lads: What phonemic generalizations indicate about the nature of children's early word-form representations

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1287-1303

  Thiessen, Erik D ^a   Yee, Meagan N ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHILADELPHIA; PHONETICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77955153830     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01468.x     Document Type: Article

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