What is a word : understanding developmental changes in the sounds infants accept as possible labels

Language is a conventional system: the use of words is shared within a language community. Even further, each language community has conventions regarding what “forms” may serve as words. A form (the phonological sounds or hand movements that make up a word) used in one community may not be proper i...

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Main Author: May, Lillian Anne
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27483

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