Tonal Targets in Early Child English, Spanish, and Catalan

Language and Speech

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 229-253

  Astruc, Lluïsa ^a,b   Payne, Elinor ^c   Post, Brechtje ^b   Vanrell, Maria del Mar ^d   Prieto, Pilar ^d,e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan; child language; English; Spanish; speech development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878583796     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830912460494     Document Type: Article

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