Rapid reacquisition of native phoneme contrasts after disuse: You do not always lose what you do not use

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 949-959

  Singh, Leher ^a   Liederman, Jacqueline ^b   Mierzejewski, Robyn ^b   Barnes, Jonathan ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051925136     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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