Use of phonetic specificity during the acquisition of new words: differences between consonants and vowels.

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  2005

• Venue

  Cognition

• Publication date

  2005-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.COGNITION.2004.10.005PMID 16297674
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