Infants' sensitivity to non-adjacent dependencies across phonological phrase boundaries

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Van Heugten, Marieke ^a   Shi, Rushen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-PHRASE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROCESSING UNITS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649534840     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3486197     Document Type: Article

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