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Discriminating learning of stops and fricatives in CVC syllables, by five-year-olds1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

John H. V. Gilbert
John H. V. Gilbert*
Affiliation:
The University of British Columbia
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Extract

This report contains the results of a preliminary study dealing with the ways in which children between five and six years of age discriminate and learn phonetic elements of spoken language. In particular, it describes differences on a verbal discrimination learning task of stops vs fricatives in CVC syllables.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Spring 1976 , pp. 67 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1976

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Footnotes

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This research was supported hy grant #MT-4217 from the Medical Research Council of Canada.

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