On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition

Lingue e Linguaggio

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-229

  Nespor, Marina ^a   Peña, Marcela ^b   Mehler, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

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EID: 85032653433     PISSN: 17209331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1418/10879     Document Type: Article

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