Consonant Acquisition, Frequency, and Function
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* University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistics, CLiPS Research Center ** Hasselt University, Database and Theoretical Computer Sciences Research Group *** University of Antwerp, Institute for Education and Information Sciences and Statistical Centre of the University of Antwerp (StatuUA) Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the children and their families who participated in this study. The research reported in this paper was supported by a TOP-BOF grant of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp and by a PhD fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to the second author. Thanks are also due to two reviewers for many helpful comments.
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