Linguistic and dialectal differences in the development of the procedures of word segmentation;Différences linguistiques et dialectales dans la mise en place des procédures de segmentation de la parole

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Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-146

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a   Goyet, Louise ^a   Sundara, Megha ^b   Polka, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributional properties; French; Infants; Rhythm; Speech; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865315582     PISSN: 00137545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4074/S0013754512002017     Document Type: Review

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