Infants’ sensitivity to allophonic cues for word segmentation
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1 I would like to thank my three supervisors for their help and advice before and throughout the experiment. A special thank-you is for Suzanne Curtin, who took the risk of letting me stay in her lab for six months. Within Suzanne's Speech Development lab, I am very much indebted to Stephanie Archer for lending me her voice, face and time for the stimuli and to Natasha Nickel for helping me out...
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عنوان ژورنال: Perception & Psychophysics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0031-5117,1532-5962
DOI: 10.3758/bf03213111