The acquisition of consonants in Quéébéécois French: A cross-sectional study of pre-school aged children.
This study provides a systematic description of French consonant acquisition in a large cohort of pre-school aged children: 156 children aged 20-53 months participated in a picture-naming task. Five analyses were conducted to study consonant acquisition: (1) consonant inventory, (2) consonant accura...
| Published in: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 93 - 110 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2011
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