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The interaction of phonetic/phonological development and input characteristics in early lexical development: longitudinal and crosslinguistic perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2018

Sophie Kern
Sophie Kern*
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Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596, Université Lyon 2)
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sophie.kern@cnrs.fr
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 63 , Issue 4: Phonetic/phonological development and input characteristics in early lexical acquisition/Le développement phonétique/phonologique et les caractéristiques de l'apport linguistique dans l'acquisition lexicale précoce , December 2018 , pp. 481 - 492
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