Influences of high and low variability on infant word recognition

2007/06/28 by Leher Singh · 204 citations
Health Professions · Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Categorization #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Context (archaeology) #Infant Health and Development #Language Development and Disorders #Lexicon #Linguistics #Meaning (existential) #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Prosody #Psychology #Variation (astronomy) #Word (group theory)

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2007.05.002

published in Cognition 106(2), 833-870 (Elsevier BV)

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