The perceptual weighting of speech-related acoustic cues for 3 & 1/2-year-old children differs from that of adults: Results using natural and synthetic stimuli
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Previous studies have found that children’s judgments of syllable-initial /s/ and /JY are more related to the vocalic F2 transition and less related to the fricative-noise spectrum than are adults’ judgments [Nittrouer & StuddertKennedy, JSHR, 30 (1987); Nittrouer, J. Phon., 2
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تاریخ انتشار 2016