The interface between phonetic and lexical abilities in early Cantonese language development

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6-8, 2004, Pages 535-545

  Fletcher, Paul ^a   Chan, Cathy W Y ^b   Wong, Peony T T ^b   Stokes, Stephanie ^c   Tardif, Twila ^d   Leung, Shirley C S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Department of Health ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Late talkers; Lexicon; Phonetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH;

EID: 8644281247     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200410001703655     Document Type: Article

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