Vowel categorization during word recognition in bilingual toddlers.
Toddlers' and preschoolers' knowledge of the phonological forms of words was tested in Spanish-learning, Catalan-learning, and bilingual children. These populations are of particular interest because of differences in the Spanish and Catalan vowel systems: Catalan has two vowels in a phonetic region...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive Psychology Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 96 - 122 |
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Academic Press Inc.
August 2009
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