Structural generalizations over consonants and vowels in 11-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-367

  Pons, Ferran ^a   Toro, Juan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; Functional asymmetries; Language acquisition; Rule learning; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77955173635     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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