Phonological Neighbourhood Development in Children’s Lexicons
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A lexicon can be viewed as network of words connected by phonological similarity relations. In such a network model, words that sound similar are connected to be neighbours. The most often used criterion for defining neighbours is the one-phoneme difference rule (Luce & Pisoni, 1998), which states that any two words that only differ in one phoneme by addition, deletion or substitution are considered as phonological neighbours.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008