Fine-grained variation in caregivers' /s/ predicts their infants' /s/ category.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

• Publication date

  2011-05-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1121/1.3562562PMID 21568428PMCID PMC3188616
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