Phonological Specificity in 12- and 17-Month-Old French-Speaking Infants

Infancy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 591-609

  Zesiger, Pascal ^a   Lozeron, Elise Dupuis ^a   Lévy, Arik ^a   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84867141937     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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