Sentence-position effects on children's perception and production of english third person singular -s

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-71

  Sundara, Megha ^a   Demuth, Katherine ^b   Kuhl, Patricia K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Inflection; Morpheme; Perception; Production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECREATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79551703460     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/10-0056)     Document Type: Article

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