Acquisition of Nonadjacent Phonological Dependencies in the Native Language During the First Year of Life

Infancy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 498-524

  Gonzalez Gomez, Nayeli ^a   Nazzi, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABBLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84864544141     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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