Speech Perception in Childhood

The Handbook of Speech Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 449-468

  Walley, Amanda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Language specific pattern; Lexical restructuring model; Phonemic segments; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890734812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757024.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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