The effects of interleaving versus blocking on foreign language pronunciation learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 671-682

  Carpenter, Shana K ^a   Mueller, Frank E ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminative contrast; Interleaving; Pronunciation learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879226633     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0291-4     Document Type: Article

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