A Consonant/Vowel Asymmetry in Word-form Processing: Evidence in Childhood and in Adulthood.
In the literature, consonants have been proposed to be more important than vowels in lexical activation and access processes. However, despite a large body of evidence in the infant and adult literature, a recent study revealed a disappearance of the bias in newly learned words over the preschool ye...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 254 - 282 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2014
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