A study of the phonetic detail used in lexical tasks during infancy

In speech perception tasks young infants show remarkable sensitivity to fine phonetic detail. Despite this impressive ability demonstrated at early ages, studies of word learning in young toddlers indicate that they have difficulty learning similar-sounding words. This evidence suggests that inf...

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Main Author: Stager, Christine Louise
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10959