Infants avoid 'labouring in vain' by attending more to learnable than unlearnable linguistic patterns

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 972-979

  Gerken, Louann ^a   Balcomb, Frances K ^b   Minton, Juliet L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051940830     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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