Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.
This study investigates young school-aged children's knowledge (at 4–7 years) of accurate English word-initial onset clusters. By this age, we expect children to be mostly accurate in producing #CC clusters (rather than repairing them with deletion or epenthesis). We ask how well can they recognize...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 726 - 753 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2026
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