Infants' Discrimination of Familiar and Unfamiliar Accents in Speech

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 392-417

  Butler, Joseph ^a   Floccia, Caroline ^a   Goslin, Jeremy ^a   Panneton, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 79957942177     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00050.x     Document Type: Article

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