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Direct linkFennell, Christopher T.; Werker, Janet F. – Language and Speech, 2003
Several recent studies from our laboratory have shown that 14-month-old infants have difficulty learning to associate two phonetically similar new words to two different objects when tested in the Switch task. Because the infants can discriminate the same phonetic detail that they fail to use in the associative word-learning situation, we have…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, Child Development, Language Acquisition
