The linguistic affiliation constraint and phoneme recognition in diglossic arabic

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-315

  Saiegh Haddad, Elinor ^a   Levin, Iris ^b   Hende, Nareman ^b   Ziv, Margalit ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ARABS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS;

EID: 79956297865     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990365     Document Type: Review

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