The acquisition of phonetic categories in bilingual infants: New data from an anticipatory eye movement paradigm

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 395-401

  Albareda Castellot, Bàrbara ^a,b   Pons, Ferran ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651315211     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00989.x     Document Type: Article

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