What paradox? Referential cues allow for infant use of phonetic detail in word learning

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1376-1383

  Fennell, Christopher T ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956563071     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01479.x     Document Type: Article

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