Developmental Changes in Infants' Ability to Cope with Dialect Variation in Word Recognition

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 650-662

  Schmale, Rachel ^a   Cristià, Alejandrina ^a,b   Seidl, Amanda ^c   Johnson, Elizabeth K ^d  

^a NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; INFANCY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MICROPHONE; NORTH AMERICA; PHONEME; PREMATURITY; SPAIN; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957365257     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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