Parents accidentally substitute similar sounding sibling names more often than dissimilar names.
When parents select similar sounding names for their children, do they set themselves up for more speech errors in the future? Questionnaire data from 334 respondents suggest that they do. Respondents whose names shared initial or final sounds with a sibling's reported that their parents accide...
Main Authors: | Zenzi M Griffin, Thomas Wangerman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3877301?pdf=render |
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