The development of language constancy: Attention to native versus nonnative accents

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1686-1700

  Kitamura, Christine ^a   Panneton, Robin ^b   Best, Catherine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUTH AFRICA; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883418402     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12068     Document Type: Article

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