Bodies and codas or core syllables plus appendices? Evidence for a developmental theory of subsyllabic division preference

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 338-362

  Chen, Aleck Shih Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Appendices; Body coda division; Core syllable; Developmental theories; Lexical restructuring; Onsets and rimes; Phonological awareness; Preferred subsyllabic division units

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY CODA SYLLABLE; CHINESE; CORE SYLLABLE; ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 80055090173     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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