Learning non-adjacent regularities at age 0;7

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 860-872

  Gervain, Judit ^a   Werker, Janet F ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; SPEECH;

EID: 84881148833     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000912000256     Document Type: Article

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