Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon
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Young children's sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon.
A series of three experiments examined children's sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactic structure as reflected in the relative frequencies with which speech sounds occur and co-occur in American English. Children, ages 212 and 312 years, participated in a nonword repetition task that examined their sensitivity to the frequency of individual phonetic segments and to the frequency of combinati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.07.004