Development of phonological constancy: 19-month-olds, but not 15-month-olds, identify words in a non-native regional accent

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2064-2078

  Mulak, Karen E ^a   Best, Catherine T ^a   Tyler, Michael D ^a   Kitamura, Christine ^a   Irwin, Julia R ^b  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84887371304     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12087     Document Type: Article

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