Does size matter? Subsegmental cues to vowel mispronunciation detection

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 606-627

  Mani, Nivedita ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79956155510     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000910000243     Document Type: Article

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