Object Familiarity Enhances Infants' Use of Phonetic Detail in Novel Words

Infancy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-353

  Fennell, Christopher T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONEME; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859491768     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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